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The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist

Readers will never think the same way again about games, horses and spies

Nov 22nd 2024

But her new memoir is unlikely to change her critics’ minds

The world’s richest man was shaped by science fiction

They both have gods, rich institutions and secretive cultures

A dispassionate new biography chronicles the former president’s hostility to suffrage

What the Canadian intellectual gets right about young men

Can you guess which is more expensive: Broadway or the West End?