Hints and tips:
...I’m not sure I could’ve written Half of a Yellow Sun if I’d experienced the Nigerian Biafran war. I think I have the distance, not just of time, but of not having directly experienced the war....
...This week’s Bad Gay is Frederick the Great. Have any opinions? Ideas? Think I’m doing a terrible job? Let me know @lucywwatson or email longstoryshort@ft.com. Have a great weekend....
...(FT) Warren v Wall Street? Elizabeth Warren is one of the country’s most prominent critics of Wall Street firms and big banks....
...And I’m proud of being black.”...
...The Neues Museum is Berlin’s version of the V&A....
...Growing up, she had felt she had things too easy: “I’m getting it on a plate, I thought; my father had to fight for it....
...He reportedly outbid three kings for it, including Britain’s King George V – today it remains the only rare stamp not in the Queen’s collection....
...Coleman III Dimitrios Kavvathas Richard M. Ramsden Greg A. Tusar Kevin P. Connors Larry M. Kellerman Michael J. Richman Andrea A. Vittorelli James V....
...“I know it won’t be read widely,” Buller says, “but it’s the book I’m most proud of. It’s a real piece of angling history.” We discuss his own history....
...I’d like to be the second sport in every country, because [then] you’re probably the first overall.”...
...Schlumberger, who’d worked with Schiaparelli in Paris, was as bold as he was imaginative....
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