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Sahel
West must engage with dictatorships in Sahel, says Blair
...The report noted that, despite more than a decade of counterterrorism efforts, including by France, which sent troops to Mali in 2013 to fight Islamists who had taken over the ancient city of Timbuktu, success...
April 18, 2024
Wagner Group
UK to proscribe Wagner group within weeks, say government insiders
...The UK will proscribe the Wagner group as a terrorist organisation “within weeks” as part of a fresh crackdown on the Russian mercenary network, according to British government insiders....
August 22, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
One Day author David Nicholls’ new novel proves he’s still a master of the love story
...She has a short, bad marriage behind her, to Neil, a former co-worker both forgettable and cruel....
April 17, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Wagner: Parsifal review — Vienna State Opera’s all-star live recording does not disappoint
...When the Vienna State Opera assembled its singers for a new production of Wagner’s Parsifal in 2021, it aimed for the best of a generation....
March 6, 2024
ReviewFiction
Fervour — a Jewish family haunted by history and the Holocaust
...Growing up, she had no idea she was Jewish: her father was born in France, during the war, to a French mother and an English father....
February 26, 2024
Letter
Letter: Wagner, the Jockey Club and a Tannhäuser debacle
...Wagner had agreed to revise his score to accommodate this, but it had to be fitted into Act One....
January 26, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Erica Wagner
Is it right to publish Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel?
...Initially Watchman was promoted as a “sequel” to its predecessor — a somewhat puzzling positioning, as it soon became clear that the novel was, in essence, a first draft of Mockingbird, its true strength...
March 1, 2024
ReviewScience books
How does memory really work?
...She told a friend at a party that she wondered whether a false, “new” memory could be implanted. “Her friend ran with it, asking his daughter Jenny, ‘Remember the time you were lost?’”...
March 4, 2024
ReviewFiction
How I Won a Nobel Prize — cancel culture in the crosshairs
...Helen, the narrator of Julius Taranto’s adept debut, is a physicist — a graduate student with a once-in-a-generation mind whose research might just possibly save us all....
February 20, 2024
Life & Arts
Kill your darlings — insights into the art of the editing from Oxford’s Bodleian Library
...A moment to send a shiver down the spine....
February 16, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
The Vast Extent — sight, perception and all we cannot see
...The Vast Extent is a work to savour. Each essay, Greenlaw notes in her foreword, “is a series of short texts that cast light on one another rather like the aspects of a poem....
January 31, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Sleepless — is insomnia always so bad?
...A double bereavement in a dreadful time, and her “wild, monstrous” grief rendered her sleepless. Yet as the long nights bore down, Abbs writes that she began to discover a strange new freedom....
January 2, 2024
ReviewFiction
Wellness by Nathan Hill — a bewitching journey into America’s heartland
...A 600-page epic, it could briefly be described as a man’s search for the secrets of his past: a college professor in the Midwest, approaching the crux of mid-life, attempts to track down his long-lost mother...
January 17, 2024
ReviewFiction
The House of Broken Bricks — a winter of discontent in rural England
...The Hembrys live in the south of England: a family of four in a rural place still within sniffing distance of London....
January 9, 2024
ReviewMusic
Das Rheingold at Walt Disney Concert Hall — singers and set are the stars of Wagner’s opera
...Perhaps his muted approach here had something to do with maintaining a balance between his gigantic orchestra and the singers placed mostly at the rear. But Wagner’s music just cruised along....
January 22, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Erica Wagner
Make your own Parthenon marbles
...In the midst of a cost of living crisis, in a country where a million children do not own a single book, Sunak’s fit of petulance looks like — to mix our Classical metaphors — fiddling while Rome burns....
December 1, 2023
ReviewMusic
Bryn Terfel’s Flying Dutchman is a character of tragic dimensions — review
...His visits to the Royal Opera House have been more frequent — this is the fourth since the current production debuted in 2009 — but then the opera is Wagner’s shortest, a single act in this version, and...
March 1, 2024
ReviewMusic
Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate-protest disruption
...The combination of a great Wagner orchestra and the great Wagner conductor Donald Runnicles in the pit brought this to an extraordinary level....
December 4, 2023
ReviewMusic
A weighty yet exhilarating New Year’s Eve concert from the Berliner Philharmoniker
...Violence, slaughter, abuse and incest — what a way to celebrate! Of course, Wagner’s music is also about eros, and it was this that dominated the concert’s short first half....
January 2, 2024
News updates from September 29: BP’s top US executive to leave, Eurozone inflation falls
Putin appoints Wagner commander to lead irregular operations in Ukraine
...Vladimir Putin has appointed a former senior Wagner commander to lead Russian irregular operations during the invasion of Ukraine, indicating the Kremlin is looking to repurpose the notorious paramilitary...
September 29, 2023
Moldova
Moldova’s president says Wagner leader planned coup to remove her
...Moldova’s president has claimed Russia’s Wagner paramilitaries were behind a thwarted coup attempt that aimed to depose her as head of state as part of a campaign to destabilise the country....
October 6, 2023
ReviewBooks
The Future by Naomi Alderman — a game of survival
...— and to raise a laugh....
October 25, 2023
News updates from September 6: Latest Eurozone data clouds economic outlook, WeWork to renegotiate most of its leases
Wagner to be proscribed as terrorist group in UK
...Russian mercenary group Wagner will be proscribed in the UK as a terrorist organisation, the Home Office has announced....
September 6, 2023
ReviewBusiness books
Dorsey, Musk, Trump and the battle for Twitter
...With a mega-rich provocateur in charge, and no board of directors, “the power that Dorsey so worried about has only been further centralised”, Wagner writes....
March 14, 2024
News updates from August 23: Plane carrying Prigozhin crashes, Nvidia beats Wall Street estimates
Russia fires absent general amid Wagner crackdown
...Russia’s army has dismissed Sergei Surovikin, a prominent general, as head of the aerospace forces amid a crackdown on potential Wagner sympathisers following the paramilitaries’ failed mutiny in June....
August 23, 2023

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