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ReviewHistory books
Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts — stacks of power
...For decades after his death in 1953, the fragmentary sources available to scholars on Joseph Stalin’s life made his personality something of an enigma....
January 31, 2022
HTSI
The world’s most wonderful private libraries
...BS Membership £157 a year, £70 for students; theportico.org.uk Senate house library, London A librarian at Bloomsbury’s Senate House was understandably offended when I mused that I hadn’t studied in a...
May 13, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Magazine
A new exhibition explores masculinity, from the tough to the tender
...Tip’ O’Neill, US congressman (Massachusetts), majority leader of the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, May 6 1976; Peter Rodino, US congressman (New Jersey), New York, July 14 1976 Second row: Joseph...
January 31, 2020
Life & Arts
Book of flowers: artists record Prince Charles’s Transylvanian idyll
...When the botanist Sir Joseph Banks returned from his voyage with Captain Cook aboard the HMS Endeavour in 1771, he brought with him around 1,300 species unknown to Europeans and a number of sketches, colour...
July 6, 2018
ObituaryWorld
Tom Hayden, Vietnam war opponent turned California politician, 1939-2016
...Thomas Emmet Hayden was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on December 11 1939 and was raised by his divorced mother, a film librarian....
October 24, 2016
Life & Arts
How Yorkshire’s ‘Sculpture Triangle’ hopes to attract a new wave of cultural tourism
...This flamboyant room used to be part of Leeds Central Library, the place where a young Moore apparently once asked for a book on sculpture only for a librarian to respond “What’s that?”...
March 10, 2017
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
FT Magazine
Inside Liberia’s controversial experiment to outsource education
...“This is the modern time,” says Joseph Flomo, a 42-year-old father of two, referring to the use of tablets. Education is important, he says....
April 21, 2017
ObituaryUS inequality
Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist, 1924-2016
...Born Phyllis McAlpin Stewart in St Louis, Missouri, on August 15 1924, she had a librarian mother but her father was mostly unemployed during the Depression....
September 9, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Boys and Girls’; ‘The Good Luck of Right Now’; ‘The Year of the Rat’; ‘Echo Boy’
...Boys and Girls, by Joseph Connolly, Quercus, RRP£18.99, 448 pages Alan is a feckless drip whose sole achievement is to have created an artificial beach in his study....
April 11, 2014
Life & Arts
The FT’s best books of 2015
...Defying classification, for all that it may complicate the lives of librarians, booksellers and literary editors, is usually a good sign....
November 27, 2015
Life & Arts
Tolstoy translated
...His work led to friendships with writers such as Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence, and also to contact with Russian émigrés....
August 8, 2014
Life & Arts
Sea Cloud’s sailing cruise
...It was the nautical equivalent of that old movie cliché: the moment when the plain librarian removes her glasses and shakes her head, spilling blonde locks down over her shoulder....
October 18, 2013
ReviewLife & Arts
The Library: A World History, by James Campbell
...One of the project’s engineers, Joseph Tortorella, was quoted comparing the logistics of it all to “cutting the legs off a table while dinner is being served” – a not-very-desirable-sounding analogy seized...
October 11, 2013
Life & Arts
The (Secret) Diary: Adrian Mole (aged 13¾)
...Extract from ‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13¾’, 30th anniversary edition by Sue Townsend (Michael Joseph, Penguin £7.99)...
January 14, 2012
FT Magazine
Unpacking my library
...He has a librarian’s mind, and his arrangement held good until so many more books arrived that they burst the banks of the subject headings....
November 12, 2011
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
ReviewLife & Arts
What drives people to steal precious books
...Jensen, an elegantly turned-out scholar in an immaculate grey suit, says: “Some of the items attacked by Mr Hakimzadeh belonged to Sir Joseph Banks [the celebrated 18th-century naturalist who accompanied...
March 6, 2009
Life & Arts
Trumpery, Atlantic Theatre, New York
...Parnell’s consumption of non-fiction, in fact, must be a delight to whatever bookseller or librarian he relies on to feed his efforts....
December 10, 2007
Middle East protests
Quantitative investing
...Joseph Kelly, Park Row Satyajit Das: Ratings are an expression of opinion of the likelihood of default of a particular security based on mathematical models, history and snake oil....
August 17, 2007

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