Review

Megha Majumdar’s bestselling novel “A Burning” begins with a train in flames. But what really gets torched is the Indian Dream.

An important new book details the carefully calculated rise of a modern-day tsar.

The former national security advisor wrote a book about an ignorant president—but refuses to learn anything himself.

Catastrophes like the pandemic or the president shape the past as much as the future.

A new book recounts the inspiring story of how India’s constitution introduced democracy to people who had never experienced it before. Those freedoms are now in jeopardy.

Thomas Piketty’s new book argues that rising inequality is explained by politics, not economics, and offers some radical solutions.

FP staff review recent releases on Chinese industrial espionage, the dissent channel in American diplomacy, and British anti-colonialism.

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May’s top advisor wants to remake conservatism. Instead he’s written a rousing defense of Little England xenophobia.

What we’re reading, watching, playing, and listening to as we muddle through social distancing.

A rare book treats the region’s residents as empowered individuals who can shape their collective future, rather than portraying them as geopolitical pawns.

A new book chronicles the Faustian bargain that Russians—from holy men to human rights activists—have made with Vladimir Putin’s government.

As the government cracks down on Holocaust remembrance, the country’s Jewish art scene is thriving like never before.