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Kai-Fu Lee’s book AI Superpowers challenges the conventional wisdom on US artificial intelligence supremacy
A timely account of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find a way through the Northwest Passage
An account of the Italian poet’s guide to the meaning of life underscores its relevance today
The hedge fund guru dissects the big debt meltdowns by converting a sprawling issue into a clear-cut process of cause and effect
A profound sense of loss flows through Jason Cowley’s essays on the state of the nation
With so much potential for change looming, three books evaluate the body that nature has left us with
A valuable study of a quiet victory for technocrats
How a mother and daughter reduced our personalities to just four letters
The freewheeling spirit of the 1960s is recalled in a frank memoir
A tribute to a fallen uncle tells a salutary tale of what it means to serve
A new biography promises to change our understanding of Tudor politics
Two books by Woodward and Omarosa Manigault Newman reveal a president epically unsuited to the job
An Islamophobic diatribe disguised as a work of scholarship
A harrowing and timely account of the rescue of Yazidi women from Isis terror
A sketch of Soho’s celebrated drinkers reveals bullies, charlatans and chancers
Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s Billion Dollar Whale features a cast of hustlers, heads of state and Hollywood stars
Our love of distraction is proving harmful. In Attention, Joshua Cohen makes an eclectic argument for how to improve our lives
The author has a fine record on the frontlines of the media revolution — but he was less successful at balancing the books
Michael Ignatieff on why we have to look beyond group identity and failed meritocracy
A fresh look at how Russia’s elite sees itself
Two accounts of life during the Raj shed light on a meeting of cultures but also the ugly realities of colonial rule
A history of barricades reveals a deep desire that goes beyond bricks and mortar
The story of one of history’s great economic alchemists holds many lessons for us today
The threat to American democracy posed by fake news and growing intolerance in universities is well told in two timely books
A memoir of an upbringing in an intellectual elite full of clashes and strictures
