Ruins of part of the electric fence at Auschwitz-Birkenau ©Otto Dov Kulka Jan 25, 2013

Witness to genocide

The devastating account of a survivor sent to Auschwitz as an 11-year-old boy. Simon Schama reviews ‘Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death’, by Otto Dov Kulka

P-51 Mustang fighter planes in 1943 (with wingtips removed for shipment), en route for use in the D-Day invasion of Normandy ©Getty From NON-FICTION Jan 18, 2013

Paul Kennedy’s ‘Engineers of Victory’

How unsung innovators and organisers drove the Allies to victory in 1945. Review by David Edgerton

‘Tenderly Flirting’, an illustration by Hugh Thomson ©Paula Byrne Jan 11, 2013

Pride and Prejudice - and politics

As Jane Austen’s best-loved novel turns 200, Paula Byrne looks at its roots in the great events of the author’s time

James Murray, the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary ©Press Association Mike Skapinker Michael Skapinker Dec 21, 2012

The guardians of English

Three new histories of language and of dictionaries spell out the resistance to linguistic change

Tiananmen massacre funeral ©Magnum Dec 14, 2012

Democracy in action

Alan Ryan’s ‘On Politics’ is a triumph of erudition but focuses too heavily on the west, writes John Keane

'Hand Holding a Book' (1864) by Adolf von Menzel ©bpk/Nationalgalerie, SMB/Bernd Ku Dec 7, 2012

How we read

As the world of print recedes, Andrew Martin reviews ‘Book Was There’ by Andrew Piper, ‘Paper: An Elegy’ by Ian Sansom and Philip Hensher’s ‘The Missing Ink’

2012 Books of the Year illustration ©Chris Wormell Dec 3, 2012

Best books of 2012

From 3D printing to the perfect Zen garden, FT writers and guests pick their favourite books from the past year

Folio34r: Face of Christ at the top. ©The Board of Trinity College Dubl Nov 23, 2012

The Book of Kells

John Banville on the enduring fascination of the Irish monastic masterpiece

Sir David Hannay (left), then the UK’s permanent representative at the UN, with Margaret Thatcher and her chief press secretary Bernard Ingham ©AP Philip Stephens Nov 16, 2012

Diplomatic memoirs

‘Britain’s Quest for a Role’ by David Hannay, Sherard Cowper-Coles’ ‘Ever the Diplomat’ and the UK’s struggle to exert influence in a post-imperial age

CPC National Congress ©Getty Gideon Rachman Nov 9, 2012

China and the world

Can the new leaders of the world’s fastest-growing power hold to the mantra of a ‘peaceful rise’ – or are they doomed to clash with competing nations?