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ReviewAudio books
Best new audio books — tales of our tangled lives
...Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (Bloomsbury, 11 hrs 22 mins) might seem an unlikely choice: a woman in her fifties retells the gripping events of a summer from her youth to her three daughters, to pass the time...
July 31, 2023
FT Magazine
The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2023
...| aespa by Yoojin Choi | Mira Murati by Marissa Mayer | Makiko Ono by Sakie T Fukushima | Fran Drescher by Lisa Ann Walter | Lisa Dyson by Alondra Nelson | Carol Tomé by Lynn Martin | Karin Keller-Sutter...
November 30, 2023
FT Live
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Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
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London in 2024: FT Globetrotter’s month-by-month guide to what’s happening
...further information and tickets here June Art The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy The oldest open-submission exhibition in the world, dating back to 1769, is this year co-ordinated by British sculptor Ann...
January 30, 2024
The Art of Fashion: Fantastic Shapes
The return of Haider Ackermann
...Ackermann cautiously explains his absence, alluding to a falling out with his former business partner of almost 20 years, Anne Chapelle (who had also worked with Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester)....
April 5, 2023
ObituaryRoger Angell
Roger Angell, baseball writer, 1920-2022
...Just before his second wife, Carol Rogge, died in 2012 after 48 years of marriage, she told him that “if you haven’t found someone else by a year after I’m gone, I’ll come back and haunt you”....
May 27, 2022
ReviewFiction
The Retreat by Alison Moore — uncanny island
...Her books, peopled with peculiar, determined characters who might have been invented by Muriel Spark or Ann Quin, often read as works of metafiction lurking beneath a veneer of fairground-style distortion...
December 15, 2021
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
Women in business
Big business fails to promote women to top jobs
...Ann Cairns, global chair of the 30% Club, which lobbies for more women in top positions, and executive vice-chair at Mastercard, said the corporate sector did not have a level playing field....
March 6, 2021
Cordelia Jenkins
An ode to the poems almost foregone
...One of my darkest memories of studying English literature at school is being made to write a list of bullet points on the Carol Ann Duffy poem “Valentine”, enumerating the ways in which love is meant to...
August 7, 2020
ReviewBooks
Tools and Weapons, by Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne
...The title of his new book, written with his colleague Carol Ann Browne, is a reminder that the arc of technology does not inevitably bend towards good or ill....
December 16, 2019
ReviewTelevision
Festive frights abound in Martin’s Close and A Christmas Carol
...The second framing device is the court case itself, with Peter Capaldi as the prosecutor of the heartless young man, John Martin (Wilf Scolding), and his treatment of Ann Clarke, “an innocent or natural”...
December 20, 2019
FTWeekend Live Q&A
Top 10 theatre shows for families to watch from home
...The first family-friendly offering is Liv Lorent’s gothicky dance-theatre retelling of Grimm, scripted by Carol Ann Duffy and first seen in 2018....
April 3, 2020
Screen time: a photography special
The TV in the cupboard: Olivia Laing on how television infiltrates our subconscious
...I put a screenshot of Smiley on Twitter, and for a day my messages were full of friends asking the pervasive, undermining question of the show: “How’s Ann?”...
January 3, 2020
Coronavirus: free to read
Can New York avoid a coronavirus exodus?
...It’s because the talent is here,” says Mary Ann Tighe, chief executive for the tri-state area at CBRE, the real estate services group....
May 26, 2020
Poetry
‘Corvus corone’ by Simon Armitage
...Simon Armitage has been appointed as 21st Poet Laureate of the UK, succeeding Carol Ann Duffy Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
May 17, 2019
News in-depthGender pay gap
Standard Life Aberdeen takes first steps to more family-friendly City
...But closing the pay gap also requires senior men to set an example, according to Ann Francke, chief executive of the Chartered Management Institute....
November 1, 2019
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewBooks
2020 visions: the year ahead in books
...It’s a tale of movie giants, from stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway to writer Robert Towne and director Roman Polanski....
January 3, 2020
Big Tech
Big Tech veteran scents change in rules of the game
...In a new book addressing the biggest tech policy issues, Tools and Weapons, Mr Smith and co-author Carol Ann Browne also highlighted the impact of online advertising, comparing concerns about today’s advertising-dependent...
September 19, 2019
InterviewThe Questionnaire
Q&A with Kate Clanchy, teacher and poet
...Carol Ann Duffy helped me become a writer. She was there at a pivotal point in my life and was very generous. How physically fit are you? Pretty fit....
May 31, 2019
Prime property
Glasgow has fastest growing house prices in UK
...“Glasgow is more friendly and a bit more trendy than Edinburgh, in terms of its people,” says Ann Laird, chairman of the Friends of Glasgow West Association....
June 13, 2019
Letter
The intense comfort of that ‘small familiar pain’
...That “small familiar pain” of the truth, encountered again through a poem, is intensely comforting, as Carol Ann Duffy recognises in her poem “Prayer” — which is unsurprisingly a national favourite....
October 12, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Rumpelstiltskin, Sadler’s Wells, London — not the stuff of fairytales
...The new treatment was penned by Carol Ann Duffy, but the Poet Laureate’s once-upon-a-timing is doggedly workaday and the modish new story is unfocused and uninvolving and doesn’t begin to justify its leisurely...
April 3, 2018
UK politics
Portraits in the sand will commemorate WW1 dead
...Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, has been asked by Mr Boyle to write a poem to be read by members of the public as they visit the beaches on Armistice Day....
October 5, 2018
ReviewFiction
Cassandra Darke by Posy Simmonds — snob appeal
...Her muted palette, with occasional splashes of colour, is absorbing and in the curmudgeonly Cassandra (bearing a striking resemblance to the Mrs Scrooge Simmonds created to accompany Carol Ann Duffy’s 2009...
November 2, 2018
Life & Arts
A poem by Jeanette Winterson
...The project features four new, original works of writing by Jeanette Winterson, Kate Bush, Carol Ann Duffy and Jackie Kay, engraved on to stones in different locations connecting the Brontë sisters’ birthplace...
July 6, 2018
ReviewLife & Arts
Short review: 24 Stories of Hope for Survivors of the Grenfell Tower Fire
...If you’ve read Carol Ann Duffy, you’ll know that it’s hard to write well with a tight brief....
June 15, 2018

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