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Travel
How I got from Gatwick to Rome — on an invalid passport
...We got into a taxi and went straight to the gallery to start installing the Blake show....
November 30, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Two Sisters by Blake Morrison — the challenge of family memoir
...Two Sisters by Blake Morrison, The Borough Press, £16.99, 288 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
February 13, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewVisual Arts
The National Portrait Gallery reopens with a fabulous transformation
...In Peter Blake’s warm, comic portrayal, Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis, aged 86, stands in denim shorts and stretches his arms out in greeting....
June 17, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
Divinity and damnation — why Dante still matters
...Many have seen him as cruel and vengeful, while for TS Eliot he was the epitome of classical restraint....
September 28, 2021
ReviewBiography and memoir
Pessoa by Richard Zenith — one man, many lives
...It’s safe to say that no other tastemaking poet of the 1920s — Eliot, Lorca, Brecht — would have sought consolation in fantasies of swashbuckling centuries hit under the African sun....
July 30, 2021
Visual Arts
‘To see the stars again’: Dante at 700
...“Dante’s is a visual imagination”, TS Eliot observed. He sweeps us up in graphic torments and tortures yet offers visionary solace....
March 6, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Books
Look to the future — what to read in 2021
...The group’s founder Eliot Higgins tells the bigger story in We Are Bellingcat (Bloomsbury, February). Technology also features prominently among the business books of 2021....
December 30, 2020
FT Books Essay
The enduring attraction of cities
...“The fields from Islington to Marylebone/To Primrose Hill and St John’s Wood/Were builded over with pillars of gold/And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood,” wrote William Blake, the visionary artist who was...
September 29, 2020
ObituaryLaw
Jeremy Hutchinson, barrister, 1915-2017
...He made a memorable speech in mitigation of the Soviet spy George Blake, successfully defended the Italian atomic scientist Giuseppe Martelli, and dealt a big blow to the Official Secrets Act with his defence...
November 17, 2017
Life & Arts
What to see at the Venice Biennale 2017
...Some 18 metres high, towering right up the four storeys of the building, is a mighty headless figure — recognisably William Blake’s “Ghost of a Flea”, with its talons instead of toes and its scaly back....
May 5, 2017
First Person
‘I recite poems for money on the street’
...I am particularly fond of TS Eliot and Larkin, and enjoy Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s observation that prose is “words in the best order”, but poetry is “the best words in the best order”....
September 2, 2016
Janan Ganesh
London is too great a city for any politician to shape it
...Shakespeare, Chaucer, Newton, William Blake, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound. Peter Ackroyd has committed his life to the documentation of other lives....
June 18, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Jeremy Hutchinson’s Case Histories’, by Thomas Grant
...He was born into the Bloomsbury set — Lytton Strachey was his cousin — with TS Eliot, Aldous Huxley and others as family friends....
June 5, 2015
Life & Arts
Cornelia Parker at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
...Tóibín has written a short story for the catalogue which illuminates Parker’s practice through his sumptuous knowledge of modern poets such as Eliot, Lowell and Derek Mahon....
February 20, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2015
...James Lovegrove Literary non-fiction Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive account of TS Eliot...
June 26, 2015
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Life & Arts
The FT’s Summer books 2014
...… The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot, by Rebecca Mead, Granta, RRP£16.99/Crown, RRP$25 New Yorker writer Mead mixes biography, memoir and a close reading of George Eliot’s classic novel...
June 27, 2014
Q&ALife & Arts
Small Talk: Daljit Nagra
...was shortlisted for the 2011 TS Eliot prize. He lives in London and is married with two children. Who are your literary influences? Shakespeare and Milton....
November 23, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Comforting verses
...More ambitious is the inclusion of TS Eliot’s “Prufrock”, but these classic works are leavened with a potent selection of meditative or provocative modern work....
June 8, 2012
World
Naive? Eccentric? More an unlikely modernist
...His decision in the 1920s to deal only with “ordinary” urban life is wholly in line with the modernist projects of that time, as expounded by writers such as Joyce and Eliot....
December 6, 2010
FT Magazine
Unpacking my library
...Philip Pullman’s top 10 books: Blake by Ruthven Todd, ed; The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa; The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé; Twentieth Century Dictionary by Chambers; The Complete Poems, 1927-1979...
November 12, 2011
ReviewHarry Eyres
True Friendship
...Friendship, however you define it (Ricks quotes Blake’s “opposition is true friendship”), is hardly a technical term, and the book illuminates personal connections as well as poetic ones between the five...
September 13, 2010
Life & Arts
Roger Hilton: Late Works, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
...provocative) manifesto for painting, but Hilton generally used the letters as personal memos, crabby remarks about family, friends and acquaintances, drunken ramblings, literary tags (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Eliot...
December 1, 2009
Life & Arts
Ian McKeever, Kings Place Gallery, London
...A hero of his, William Blake, believed he was guided by angels; McKeever looks for a “presence, or aura, that I have to sense before I start the painting”....
September 17, 2009
Life & Arts
Fashion and philosophy
...Burns is a pleated-bib formal dress shirt (a nod to Burns’ Night), while Eliot is crisp and striped (imagine him presiding over Faber’s old offices in Bloomsbury)....
May 14, 2010
Life & Arts
The forgotten Surrealist
...It charts the precocious development of a young woman who, like Nash, felt indebted to the Romantic tradition in English art explored by Blake and Samuel Palmer....
November 18, 2008

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