The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and book reviewers.

Historian Sunil Amrith’s 2025 British Academy Book Prize winner traces how conquest and extraction drove 500 years of ...

Dr Goh Keng Swee proposed a separation, even as Mr Lee Kuan Yew preferred a looser federation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Seeing Things” traces tools that manipulate reality (like Sora or Photoshop) back to technologies popularized in the 1800s.

Vande Mataram completes 150 years as Parliament debates its legacy and political meaning. PM Modi accuses Congress of ...

F or me, the standout book of 2025 is John Blair’s Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World ...

Will our leaders - so slow in the past to react to Russian aggression - realise the transatlantic alliance is history?

From the Bengaluru railway station at Baiyyapanahalli to engineering colleges and museums, there are many public places named ...

Speaking in Rajya Sabha, the Congress leader calls the Vande Mataram debate part of a project to defame Nehru. Vande Mataram ...

Two books show that creating a museum with a clear conscience isn’t always straightforward; another shows how we do love a ...

Macaulay's intent was quite different from what has been propagated by Indian leaders and public intellectuals, who love to ...

Finally, one book that recently landed on the FT books desk and is already generating some discussion is Capitalism by Sven Beckert. It’s a monumental (1,300 pages and counting) global history that ...