Award comes against a backdrop of growing international appreciation of her country’s culture
The South Korean author won 2016’s Man Booker International Prize for her novel ‘The Vegetarian’. This pick of FT reviews and interviews looks back at her other books
The man who would be world king claims many triumphs but reveals his mortal failings in this racy account of his political career
A renewed focus on pandemics, sanatoriums and troubled minds reveals much about the state of our times
The American writer blends ocean exploration and social technology in his Booker-longlisted novel
A third outing for Paula Spencer sees her hard-fought lockdown peace disrupted by the arrival of a middle-aged daughter
Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian provide a superb history of China’s transition into and out of the Cultural Revolution
Australian writer Charlotte Wood has penned a resonant novel that takes on fundamental questions about life
The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US
Lessons from cuckoos, caterpillars and tortoises: the influential biologist’s new book ‘reads’ genes as palimpsests of the past
Obama’s climate negotiator gives insights into the fraught Paris 2015 deal while a historian does a demolition job on our energy transition delusions
Technique or temperament? The alchemy of great art is elusive — but this peek inside painters’ studios offers tantalising insights
Bob Woodward says former US president also secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian leader
It’s not ingratitude to acknowledge the tension between acclaim and attention
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
Yes, please do. Everyone is dying to know why it wasn’t your fault
The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’
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
Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
A writer unpacks a lifelong obsession
A young woman’s noble ambitions are compromised by the corrupting influence of money
A look at the impact of white nationalism and the far right in the Appalachias
The author follows her acclaimed 2020 novel ‘Small Pleasures’ with a portrait of extraordinary lives in 1960s suburbia
Though in my youth I never found any doors into other worlds, as an adult my dreams are providing more than I can possibly open
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
Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special
Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Affleck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, even the Pope come here for rare first editions
Peter Parker’s two-volume anthology is a meticulous portrait of prejudice and the gradual shifting of public opinion
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust
Neha Dixit’s vivid chronicle of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive plays out against the backdrop of modern India
The novelist loves perfume, paperweights and writing pads from Home Depot
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
Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
