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HTSI
Sci-fi books are taking off again
...She namechecks “Iain M Banks’s Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000...
January 11, 2024
Martin Amis
The acid wit and magnificent prose of Martin Amis
...Larkin was an animating spirit and the source of a plot twist (was he somehow Martin’s biological father?)...
May 22, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
HTSI
How skiwear slalomed into our wardrobes
...Casting, Tiago Martins at Ben Grimes. Hair, Hiroki Kojima at Caren using Oribe. Make-up, Dan Delgado using Jones Road. Photographer’s assistants, William Richards and Stephen Elwyn Smith....
December 2, 2022
FT Magazine
Why does imagining the end of the world feel easier than saving it?
...The Harvard literary critic Martin Puchner’s recent book Literature for a Changing Planet argues that the stories we tell have the power to change how we respond to the crisis in the natural world....
October 8, 2022
UK schools
Students celebrate record A-level grades after torrid year across UK
...But whatever the imperfections of teacher-assessed grades, back across the city at Varndean College, where Martin Ballard, the head of history was celebrating his department’s 64 per cent A*-B grades, the...
August 10, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cinderella is a gorgeous glitterball of a show
...In one, Anna Maxwell Martin and Chris O’Dowd bring great warmth, humour and affection to the piece....
August 19, 2021
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
HTSIThe Escape issue
Freedom, style, sex, power: the fetishisation of the fast car
...The Poet Laureate of Dystopia, JG Ballard, predicted that by about now private cars would not be allowed on public roads....
June 14, 2021
FT SeriesSouthern Europe Special: an FT property guide
Skyscrapers-on-sea: Benidorm, an oasis of Modernist design
...Photographer Martin Parr’s photos have fixed an image of those Brits lolling by the pool and rolling through the streets against the abstract backdrop of the towers....
June 25, 2021
News in-depthUK manufacturing
‘We’re running towards a cliff edge’: UK electric bus makers face survive-or-die moment
...“We’re running towards a cliff edge, if we don’t start getting orders,” said Andy Palmer, chair of Leeds-based bus maker Switch Mobility and former Aston Martin chief executive....
April 10, 2021
Moral Money
Biden zaps the power from Trump’s ESG rules Premium content
...“Humanity has become a cuckoo in the planetary nest,” wrote the FT’s Martin Wolf this week. Our activities are reshaping life on earth....
March 12, 2021
ReviewScience fiction books
The pick of the best new sci-fi
...This year, the ceremony — held online, of course, rather than at Worldcon as usual — was compèred by none other than George RR Martin....
September 22, 2020
Gardens
The catalogues that planted a gardener’s seeds of desire
...Martin quotes a letter written in 1879 by a Catherine Starbuck of Nantucket that sums up the “seed fever” I succumb to every winter....
December 18, 2020
The Aesthete
Tim Marlow on smoked oysters, Chelsea FC and dreaming of a room big enough for Lucian Freud’s bath
...I also like JG Ballard: somebody once published a compendium of the books in Ballard’s own library and he used to have a medical textbook on car crashes, which is black and white and not as voyeuristic as...
March 6, 2020
Due Diligence
Can private equity find a bargain in the mayhem? Premium content
...Joann Cheng, chairman of Fosun’s fashion unit and Lanvin, is stepping into the role until a successor is announced. More here....
March 18, 2020
Fashion
Supremes style and why a sequin gown became a suit of armour
...“Martin Luther King would come hang out with Berry Gordy when we were on the road. We knew things were happening, and we knew we had a voice that could be heard. We were an example.”...
August 9, 2019
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewLife & Arts
Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith — from the sublime to the showbiz
...Instead, pubescent fan-girls lead into the ethics of their hero’s near-namesake, the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, with his insistence that true meetings demand a soul-deep encounter between “I” and “...
January 26, 2018
Q&AThe Questionnaire
The Inventory: Michael Moorcock
...In the 1960s and 1970s he edited New Worlds magazine, publishing authors such as JG Ballard and Thomas Pynchon. What was your childhood or earliest ambition? To write and edit....
July 22, 2016
Life & Arts
Renewed interest in the golden era of Czechoslovak design
...“The furniture from this period is very modern even if most of the pieces are nearly 90 years old,” says Martin Pracka, a Prague-based architect who regularly works with Modernista....
September 4, 2015
US politics & policy
Hillary Clinton wins Iowa but Bernie Sanders celebrates
...Liz Ballard, an architectural designer, said Mr Sanders’s campaign was the first to resonate with her since that of populist George McGovern in 1972....
February 2, 2016
World
Why London defies attempts to write the definitive novel
...Martin Amis’s finest London novel Money (1984) — part of a loose trilogy of that also includes London Fields (1989) and The Information (1995) — is in part a book about the alienation brought about by economic...
October 14, 2015
ObituaryObituary
Margaret Rule, archaeologist, 1928-2015
...She was born Margaret Martin in Buckinghamshire on September 27 1928 but the family soon moved to London, where the young Margaret stayed throughout the Blitz....
April 17, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Latest Readings’ and ‘Sentenced to Life’, by Clive James
...No literary artist, Martin Amis once wrote, ages more slowly than a poet, “some of whom (Yeats for instance) just keep on singing, and louder sing for every tatter in their mortal dress”....
August 14, 2015
Life & Arts
Upcoming concerts and festivals
...Joe Martin on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums provide supple support....
March 27, 2015
Life & Arts
More exhibitions including ‘A Crazed Flowering’ and ‘Late Turner’
...A Crazed Flowering, Frameless Gallery, London The first young painters’ show of 2015 takes inspiration from JG Ballard’s dystopian vision in The Crystal World (1966), where a crystalline entity overwhelms...
January 2, 2015
Life & Arts
Content is nothing without context
...The aim of the show was – with the usual hyperbolic licence that museums adopt – to remedy an art world where “100 per cent of exhibitions ignore 80 per cent of the earth”, as curator Jean-Hubert Martin...
January 8, 2014

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