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Michael Hann’s entertaining history charts the rise and fall of an influential musical movement
Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm investigate the billion-dollar dark side of the art market
As a new book chronicles his career, the designer reveals what it was like to dress Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Cher
This two-volume collection offers a rewarding portrait of the artist, despite its literary pretensions
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Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads
The wide-ranging and often prophetic writings of The Doors’ frontman are celebrated in a new anthology
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From bone flutes to electronica, Mozart to Stormzy: Nicholas Kenyon and Michael Spitzer take two anthropological journeys into sound
Two books offer intimate yet contrasting histories of Jewish art collectors in fin-de-siècle and early 20th-century France
The medium’s 200-year evolution from novelty to vital artistic medium is examined in a new book and Paris show
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Making music has brought stability to the singer’s often turbulent life — now he is sharing the secrets of how it’s done
From ideas for rethinking economics and politics to pure escapism, FT writers and critics choose their favourite titles of what has been an extraordinary year for books
Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles
Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles
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A new book’s dialogue between two eloquent voices on art contains a vast range of concrete knowledge
Beguiling biography of a textile man who shaped the Russian avant-garde during dark historical dramas
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