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Best of Further Reading 2023: FT staff pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
...For a loyal reader, it was like waiting for Dickens instalments in the old days. Here’s one of the final ones, but you sort of had to be there week in week out to get it....
December 19, 2023
Books
What to read in 2024
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
December 28, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Interiors
Interior design dilemma? Time to call in the online consultants
...Which, as it turns out, is what happens when The Expert pairs me with Chris Graves of Clarence & Graves, whose former London house I had greatly admired in House & Garden last year....
May 5, 2023
FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
Hauser & Wirth CEO Ewan Venters’ ideal London weekend
...Back in its heyday, The Prospect of Whitby was visited by historic figures and celebrities: Turner and Whistler both sketched views of the Thames from the pub, and Charles Dickens dined there too....
August 9, 2022
ReviewFilm
MLK/FBI — documentary about the civil rights leader has a wider story to tell
...To relate the hounding of King and the animus of J. Edgar Hoover, director Sam Pollard makes the screen an archive-only zone....
January 14, 2021
HTSI
The outdoorsman cometh: my epic Adirondacks adventure
...After several trials, Rushton built a 10.5lb boat – the Sairy Gamp, named for a Dickens drunk who never took water....
October 27, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
US presidential election
A Joe Biden candidacy would pit experience against excitement
...J Ann Selzer, who conducted the poll for The Des Moines Register, said 64 per cent of likely caucus-goers thought Mr Biden had the most experience and should run....
March 19, 2019
FT SeriesFT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
Writer Claire Tomalin: ‘You begin to see certain patterns’
...She has written about Shelley and Dickens and Thomas Hardy; about Austen and Katherine Mansfield and Dora Jordan, actress and mistress of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV....
March 9, 2018
News in-depthFT Alphaville
Eighteen years, five wells, output zero: Zion's long quest for oil in Israel
...Invented in 1921 by J Clarence Archer, 2D seismic creates a geographical x-ray of the earth's structure, helping to identify oil or gas reserves....
March 22, 2018
US politics & policy
Trump taps former federal prosecutor to head FBI
...Additional reporting by Kara Scannell Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
June 8, 2017
Nilanjana Roy
How modern life is changing the art of conversation
...In 2010, Uri Hasson, Greg J Stephens and Lauren J Silbert discovered in their pioneering paper, “Speaker-Listener neural coupling underlies successful communication”, that conversation is truly a two-way...
April 25, 2017
FT SeriesPink Snow 2017: the world’s 50 best ski hotels
The peak of luxury
...1 — The Chedi, Andermatt, Switzerland “The highest sublimation of all you can imagine in the way of Swiss scenery,” wrote Charles Dickens when he visited Andermatt in 1845. “Oh God!...
October 13, 2017
FT Magazine
The Polaroid story: inside the company that gave the world instant photography
...In 1973, the Clarence Kennedy Gallery, named after Land’s friend and professor of art at Smith College, opened in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to present photographs made on or with Polaroid materials....
June 16, 2017
US & Canadian companies
RJR Nabisco wins legal battle with EU
...Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas joined the opinion by Justice Samuel Alito. Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Ruth Ginsburg dissented....
June 20, 2016
World
Why London defies attempts to write the definitive novel
...Of all London novelists, Charles Dickens probably got closest to the Joycean vision of novel-as-map....
October 14, 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
Politics: stranger than fiction
...These complex, immersive productions seemed perfectly suited to being watched one after the other, just as we now read Dickens in novel, rather than serial, form....
March 11, 2016
UK schools
London’s blue plaques: Marks of a notable past
...Dickens’ 17-year-old sister-in-law Mary died in his arms there, subsequently providing the model for ailing Dickens heroines such as The Old Curiosity Shop’s Little Nell. … J.P....
December 4, 2013
UK politics
Loss of census seen as threat to UK historical insight
...Famous people whose private lives have been revealed through census data include Lord Tennyson, Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Karl Marx, who appears as Charles Mark and cites as...
September 1, 2013
Life & Arts
Now it can be told
...Walter Scott or George Eliot; the caricaturing Dickens of Oliver Twist or the sentimental Dickens of Our Mutual Friend? We would moor under the willows to wrestle with the pain of Shylock....
August 30, 2013
Life & Arts
Big data meets the Bard
...“Literary history would tell you to expect Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and Mark Twain to be at the top of the list,” says Jockers....
June 15, 2013
InterviewLife & Arts
Small talk: Claire Tomalin
...‘Charles Dickens: A Life’ is published in paperback on June 21 (Penguin)...
June 15, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, British Library, London
...Others settings unravel in layers: the London of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales – a manuscript copy is a highlight – opening in a Southwark pub connects with the “Cockney Visions” of Blake and Dickens, who in...
May 13, 2012
World
Little Whinging’s famous resident
...That also spoke volumes, yet J.K. Rowling took further pains to describe how utterly ghastly it was by locating the house on Privet Drive....
February 27, 2012
US & Canadian companies
Insurers eye Chinese motor market
...While access to the third-party policy market will give foreign insurers an opening, they will be unable to compete on price because premium rates for that product are set by the state, according to Clarence...
February 19, 2012
Brian GroomUK schools
Boris and Ken: no model for mayors
...Charles Dickens would not have dreamt of renaming the capital, though Coketown in Hard Times was based partly on Preston. This can be disorientating....
April 16, 2012

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