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ReviewBooks
The best books of the week
into terrorism; dark, fractured fiction from Jón Kalman Stefánsson — plus Nilanjana Roy on the revelations of writers’ letters and Alex Clark’s pick of new audiobooks
April 26, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The delights of year-end reading lists
...That is a wonderfully calming number — once you know you can’t possibly read over two million books a year, it frees you up....
November 21, 2023
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
Nilanjana Roy
Why authors’ letters sometimes say more than their books
...Writers may have a stage persona or a practised interview self, but over a lifetime of letters, the truth of an individual emerges....
April 23, 2024
ReviewBooks
The Crisis of Culture by Olivier Roy — a remarkable achievement
...In Roy’s telling, this new reality is the result of a complex cocktail of events and factors....
March 22, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
Travelling mindfully through the pages of a book
...a short walk away....
April 8, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
It’s a golden age
...Reading this fresh wave of histories feels like opening a door to a much richer sense of the past....
March 19, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Nilanjana Roy
What makes a literary city?
..., rumours, food, cigarettes and tea — and can take place anywhere: in a private home, a local tea shop, the park or a veranda.”...
February 14, 2024
Roy Swan
The Church of England’s historic gesture holds lessons for investors
...This first step by the Church Commissioners for England is a giant leap towards a brighter future for us all....
March 4, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The secret of a bestseller? Why word of mouth beats algorithms
...them, reading is a community act....
February 27, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The British Library cyber breach was an attack on the world’s knowledge
...In 2021, the Boston Public Library was hit by a ransomware attack that shut down its systems for a week; the library took months to recover fully....
January 31, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
Our enduring fascination with Kafka
...On my travels, I’ve encountered him in unexpected ways and places: a fisherman who lives in a hut on Trivandrum beach shows me his favourite book, a Malayalam translation of The Castle, and a quiet professor...
January 15, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The bliss — and benefits — of slow reading
...A new year often signals a fresh TBR (To Be Read) pile....
January 1, 2024
Letter
Letter: Collapsing Sumerians or standing-firm Pharaohs
...The review might have used Albert Camus’ L’Étranger (The Outsider) as a more useful analogy. I say this because the crises Roy describes as “novel” are perhaps not so novel after all....
April 12, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
Take refuge in the gossip of the gilded age
...That shocks me — at only 15, still a child!...
December 5, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Let animal spirits haunt your Halloween stories
...What An Owl Knows is a treat....
October 28, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Letter
Letter: One satisfied customer
...I have no problem with such a service. Roy Bland Penzance, Cornwall, UK...
October 20, 2023
InterviewTheatre
Brian Cox’s next act: ‘There’s so much that crosses over with my own life. I find it exceedingly painful’
...“It’s kind of ironic that the whole thing was a huge satire on entitlement, and yet people love Logan Roy,” he says, grinning. “And you go, ‘He’s not particularly loveable....
March 8, 2024
US presidential election 2024
North Carolina governor tells Biden’s Democratic critics to ‘get on board’
...Roy Cooper, one of the few Democrats to lead a state that Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2020, said in an interview that public doubt expressed by some prominent party members was “one of the reasons why the...
November 9, 2023
ObituaryGita Mehta
Gita Mehta, writer and journalist, 1943-2023
...Gita had no intention of being a writer — as the wife of a publisher, she felt safely inoculated against that ambition — but at a cocktail party, a guest grabbed her sari, pulled her into his group and said...
September 23, 2023
ReviewFiction
Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li — brittle fractures of the heart
...As a mother tells her beloved autistic son in the story “On the Street Where You Live”, “Anything that could go wrong — a marriage, a child, a medical treatment, a painting, an affair, a tree — started with...
September 6, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and me — was AI right to use our books?
...Generative AI might be able to digest a million books and produce a million more....
October 3, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
The novelists painting a human picture of Modi’s divided India
...Among this year’s new titles, some, such as 38-year-old Devika Rege’s Quarterlife, offer a snapshot of a generation and a country in great flux; a few, such as 53-year-old KR Meera’s Assassin, translated...
September 22, 2023
Commodities
Unions vow to fight on as Tata Steel confirms plans to close blast furnaces
...Roy Rickhuss, Community general secretary, said Tata’s decision was a “destructive bad deal for steel” and warned that “this isn’t over — not by a long shot”....
April 25, 2024
Nilanjana Roy
The pleasures of bilingual reading
...or learning a second language....
August 25, 2023
Nilanjana Roy
You’re never alone with a book
...Just the act of being a reader in a crowd of commuters gives me a sense of having and taking my time....
July 26, 2023

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