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Fiction Devil in a Blue Dress. By Walter Mosley. Atria; 240 pages; $18.99. Profile; £9.99 This is the first book in a series featuring Easy Rawlins, an African-American private detective [...]

'HE INSPIRED NEITHER love nor fear, nor even respect…He originated nothing, he could keep the routine going—that's all.' As a description of your typical middle manager, it is hard to [...]

IT IS DIFFICULT to wrap your mind around California. The Golden State is larger and more populous than many countries, with an economy to match. It is home to towering [...]

THE THREE countries that make up the Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador—have around 30m people among them. Yet, especially in the United States, the region commands attention out of [...]

IN 'THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY', a comic sci-fi novel, Douglas Adams, the author, mused about the nature of travel. Road bypasses, he wrote, 'are devices that allow some [...]

HOLLYWOOD MAKES a lot of films about Hollywood. For similar reasons journalists write a lot of books about journalism. Film-makers and journalists are often reflective folk, for example. Although they [...]

YOU'VE FINISHED 'Succession'. Where to get another fix of power grabs and power lunches? Worry not: here are four books and one podcast to satisfy your craving. They recount real-life [...]

FOR A COUNTRY of 40m people that is largely desert, Saudi Arabia has a surprisingly big role in the wider world. The second-largest producer of oil, it often sets the [...]

POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPARATIVE POLITICS The Atlantis Realists: Empire and International Political Thought between Germany and the United States, by Matthew Specter. Stanford, Feb. 2022. ISBN 9781503603127 $90.00; pbk ISBN 9781503629967 [...]

OUTSIDERS OFTEN visit Egypt to see its ancient pyramids, tombs and temples. Several empires have risen and fallen in the land along the Nile since those were built. Contemporary Egypt, [...]

JOURNALISTS WHO write about lands other than their own hold an enviable position. They are free from entanglements and allegiances that can interfere with the judgment of native journalists. They [...]

For further recommendations, try our annual round-up of the https://www.economist.com/best-of-the-year and more. Of Boys and Men. By Richard Reeves. Brookings Institution Press; 256 pages; $28.99. Swift Press; £20 In some [...]

For further recommendations, try our annual round-up of the https://www.economist.com/best-of-the-year and more. The Song of the Cell. By Siddhartha Mukherjee. Scribner; 496 pages; $26.99. Bodley Head; £22 A https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/10/26/siddhartha-mukherjees-new-book-is-a-tour-dhorizon-of-cell-theory , [...]

Our correspondents wrote about economics, sanctions, polling and space travel Surviving the Daily Grind: Bartleby's Guide to Work. By Philip Coggan. Profile Books; 208 pages; £14.99. To be published in [...]

The best books of 2022 tackled subjects including Hong Kong, financial scandals, the Holocaust and cell theory Politics and current affairs The Impossible City. By Karen Cheung. Random House; 319 [...]

Their subjects include financial scandals, a witness to the Holocaust and cell theory Politics and current affairs The Impossible City. By Karen Cheung. Random House; 319 pages; $28 and £23 [...]

POLITICAL SCIENCE COMPARATIVE POLITICS Autocracy and Resistance in the Internet Age, by Rachel Vanderhill. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Oct. 2020e. ISBN 9781626378995 $89.95; ebook ISBN 9781626379190 $89.95 Bounded Integration: The Religion-State [...]

Our Asia editor picks six books spanning 3,000 years of a wonderfully bewildering country This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist [...]

Specialists outside the field do better at explaining the implications This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist reads' guides, guest essays [...]

Our correspondents recommend books, old and new, on their beats. For our full shelf of reading lists, go to economist.com/economist-reads Biography The Twelve Caesars. By Suetonius. Translated by Robert Graves. [...]

What you should read when you are not working S UMMER IS IN the air. People in the northern hemisphere are starting to discuss holiday plans and making some bold [...]

The country can be infuriatingly difficult to understand This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist reads' guides, guest essays and more [...]

An eclectic selection covering the beautiful game and why it matters This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist reads' guides, guest [...]

Our former South-East Asia correspondent picks his guides to a deeply troubled country This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist reads' [...]

A reader's guide to understanding the events of the past six years This article is part of our Summer reads series. Visit our collection to discover 'The Economist reads' guides, [...]