As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best offerings philosophy, sociology and fresh thinking

As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best memoirs and biographies

Readers respond to the December issue

As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best books about politics

These are the pillars of the candidate's policy platform

As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best economics books

Plus an explanation of the great analytic-continental philosophic divide

A silks and spices trader turned giant corporation

What pollsters get wrong—and right

Why the British are foreigners to their own history