The Economist reads
The hunt for votes
What to read to understand American election campaigns
The five best books on the path to the White House, chosen by our former Washington correspondent
The Economist reads
Six books to help understand China’s domestic challenges
Our China podcast producer recommends reading to help understand what keeps China’s policymakers up at night
Bringing data to life
What to read (and watch) to understand data and visualisation
How to make the numbers shine
Doing good
What to read to understand “effective altruism”
Four books, and a smattering of other items, that explain a growing idealistic movement
Polish reportage
The heirs to Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s best-known journalist
Literary non-fiction from a country where the genre is both celebrated and contested
Science
What to read to understand how science works
Our correspondent chooses six books that tell the story of scientific progress
The Economist reads
An introduction to the works of Salman Rushdie
Our culture correspondent recommends four of the novelist’s books—and one about how the fatwa against him changed the world
India
What to read as an introduction to India
Our Asia editor picks six books spanning 3,000 years of a wonderfully bewildering country
Economics
What to read to understand how economists think
Our senior economics writer picks five books for those starting to study the subject
Energy
What to read (and watch) to make sense of the energy crunch
Four books and a film, recommended by our Schumpeter columnist
Artificial intelligence
The five best books to understand AI
Specialists outside the field do better at explaining the implications
Suburbs
Our social-affairs editor picks five books about suburbia
From fiction and non-fiction, how to understand life on the fringes of cities