The city of constant reinvention that has drawn women in search of a new life is captured in a stunning new graphic novel — plus classic reissued memoirs and novels
A memoir by the artist’s nephew details how his vivid portraits of working-class life remained undiscovered until his death in 2018
The US commentator’s pessimistic outlook surveys China, Putin, Trump — and warns that we’re entering a new Weimar phase
Writing in a new age of bitter polarisation, Minoo Dinshaw pulls into focus two figures who tried to bring the English civil war to an end in the early 1640s
This 1980s Ethiopian political satire, which cost its author his life, has been translated into English for the first time — and remains as contemporary as it was when it was first published
Catherine Airey’s dynamic, generation-spanning and much-hyped debut is messy, bold and beautiful
Can Xue’s strange short-story collection poses a series of unanswerable riddles
Women in search of reinvention in New York; Robert Kaplan warns we’re entering a second Weimar era; a memoir of an unknown artist in the Lowry mould; an Ethiopian satire that got its author killed; friendship across the divide of the 1640s English civil war; essays by WG Sebald; a debut that spans generations; Chinese short stories that pose a riddle — plus this month’s business books and Barry Forshaw’s round-up of the best in crime fiction
From innocent to guilty, Los Angeles to Oxford, stories of guns, gangs, missing children — and the theft of rare eggs
There are hard-won insights but few moments of accessibility in this posthumous collection
Putting algorithms to better use, exercising judgment, and rethinking diversity and inclusion
This mould-breaking memoir leaves questions unanswered, but its humour and enthusiasm are hard to resist
Alexandra Pringle and Alex von Tunzelmann are putting writers through their paces, one draft at a time
The author and publisher on lie-ins, pink lipstick and why we’re living in a Kafkaesque world
Robert Frost improvised, Amanda Gorman became a breakout star — but there will be no inaugural poet for Trump’s victory rally
Clare Sestanovich’s assured debut novel about coming-of-age in New York City questions how much we can ever truly know anyone but ourselves
Stephan Malinowski on why the relationship became a matter of intense public debate
A fun insight in the use of music to help neurological conditions
Manu S Pillai’s deft exploration of four centuries of the faith reveals its underlying complexities
A compelling look at the small island caught between Chinese power and the vagaries of US politics
Hiromi Kawakami’s speculative novel imagines a distant future peopled with plant and animal hybrids struggling to delay the end of humanity
Refuge and renewal in Norway and Shetland, a Zora Neale Hurston rediscovery — plus how to use your superpowers ethically
From exile abroad, Alain Mabanckou explores the legacies of French colonialism and present-day corruption in his homeland
One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes
From the Suffolk-born poet’s latest collection, ‘The Face in the Well’
The Morgan Library’s sparkling centenary exhibition shows there was far more to the writer than the solitary antiheroes of his work
‘Another Man in the Street’ — his 12th novel, and the first for seven years — is a moving study of the vulnerabilities carried and concealed by human beings on their journeys through the world
Talented but unassuming news editor who was universally admired in the FT newsroom
The crime writer’s latest novel features four disparate narratives centred around the collapse of an apartment block in Harlem
Paul Strathern’s tour of 17th-century thinkers is ambitious — but does it answer his own question about our world’s future?
The story of how the once loved Australian airline became a ‘national pariah’
The ‘Union Atlantic’ and ‘Imagine Me Gone’ author explores identity and familial bonds in his eagerly awaited new novel
Peter Frankopan on a book that argues that Sunni Islam has reversed the declining influence of religion on Turkish society
Aria Aber’s Berlin-set debut paints a vivid picture of a life plagued by instability and claustrophobia
Eva Dou’s authoritative account of the secretive tech company that has become a flashpoint in US-China relations
Michel Krielaars’ illuminating account of the composers and performers who navigated the repressive Soviet system
Two incisive studies of the Chinese president reveal a complex figure who is all too aware of the capricious nature of power
