Obama’s climate negotiator gives insights into the fraught Paris 2015 deal while a historian does a demolition job on our energy transition delusions
The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US
An urgent call to guard against tyranny; Kremlin propaganda and the complicity of Russia’s Orthodox Church; far-right white nationalism in America’s hinterlands; the Rillington Place murders and women’s lives in postwar Britain; David Spiegelhalter on the role of luck and chance; inside the artists’ studios (and their minds); new novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Rumaan Alam and Clare Chambers — plus Gideon Rachman’s pick of politics titles
Technique or temperament? The alchemy of great art is elusive — but this peek inside painters’ studios offers tantalising insights
A new book from the eminent statistician shifts from trivial issues of probability to the risk of getting cancer
Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine
Kate Summerscale’s gripping analysis of the Christie crimes is also an uncompromising picture of women’s lives in postwar Britain
The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington
Peter Parker’s two-volume anthology is a meticulous portrait of prejudice and the gradual shifting of public opinion
The heir to the Roche pharmaceuticals dynasty on how corporate power can be harnessed in the quest for sustainability
Jerry Brotton takes an intriguing look at the cardinal directions and what they tell us about the Earth and its inhabitants
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig lay bare the financial facade — and the credulous system that believed the boasts
Brigid Schulte makes a convincing case for a drastic overhaul of the way we earn a living
Historian Keith Lowe takes a rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism
Three new books on the US look at the Clinton decade, the rise of conspiracies and the existential threat of November’s presidential election
Diarmaid MacCulloch’s thrilling book explores the complexities and contradictions of biblical scholarship and its changing interpretations
An uneven collection of writing by the Spanish filmmaker veers from deep personal reflection to cartoonish absurdity
Sonia Purnell’s supremely enjoyable biography views the socialite’s life through a new and sympathetic lens
An international study of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa
‘Want’, an anthology of sexual fantasies collected by Gillian Anderson, and Helen King’s scholarly ‘Immaculate Forms’ continue the boom of sex-positive books by female writers
In his follow-up to the bestselling ‘Four Thousand Weeks’, the writer aims to unshackle us from the never-ending dream of life improvement
Two charming memoirs celebrate the simple appeal of the potter’s wheel and the lathe
A brilliantly funny and well researched biography of Elizabeth II has to contend with its uniquely inscrutable subject
The gripping account of the Ukrainian plant workers who saved the world from another nuclear disaster
An outstanding history of the trade routes that linked a civilisation’s wealth and wisdom to the world beyond
