The best books of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
livemint.combrave and vital book follows eight people, including a doctor at a small hospital, an unlicensed driver of a motorcycle taxi, and a citizen journalist, whose daring efforts resulted in a prison sentence. Read more of our guides to the cultural treats of 2023 Since the early 2000s, the number of Mexicans who have disappeared and not yet been found has risen from a handful to more than 100,000. A journalist for the New York Times tracks Miriam, whose youngest daughter is kidnapped and then killed by the Zeta gang.
By focusing on one mother’s extraordinary story, the author evokes the cartels’ painful toll. A brilliant examination of South Korean feminists’ struggle for equality with global resonance. It describes how many South Koreans still see women only as cooks, cleaners and “baby-making machines" and tells tales of misogyny, from spycams in public toilets to bigots in public office.
This chronicle of the modern evangelical movement in America is a horror story told from the inside. Its author, a staff writer for the Atlantic, is angry and heartbroken as he watches the religious community in which he was brought up being hijacked by power-hungry hucksters and right-wing nationalists. A rigorously reported look at Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign against illegal drugs from a Filipina journalist.
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