Book has been completed and brought to publication by collaborators, all of whom knew the murdered journalist to some degree

King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson & Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria

Ex-NYT correspondent argues passionately for the Palestinian cause and excoriates US authorities over blind support for Israel

Work of great scope and verve draws on a range of superb memoirs and testimonies, covering much more than India and Pakistan

Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar

Historian’s examination of Russia and Ukraine’s shared origins succeeds to a point

Many remarkable stories other than that of Vidkun Quisling

The scope is perhaps too broad, and the prose a little dry, for this book to appeal to the general reader

A worthy contribution to a growing body of literary reportage on the war in Ukraine

Omar El Akkad sees a future in which western intelligentsias will whitewash their past complaisance, but Pankaj Mishra is in little doubt that attitudes will broadly remain the same

Caroline Darian’s book is an uncomfortable read, albeit one with great immediacy, that is let down at times by its translation

Former Financial Times journalist explains failures and fallacies that caused his country to lose its way

Brown observes that securing Taiwan may be far too big a risk for the Chinese Communist Party, which values stability above all else

A careful and pointed portrait of sentiment in wartime Ukraine that shows the country is not quite as it is viewed in the West

A hard-drinking womaniser whose political skills have not been matched by competence in governance?