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ReviewNon-Fiction
Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics — the architects of nationalism
...The British authorities, the nationalist leader John Dillon raged in the House of Commons, were guilty of “washing out our life’s work in a sea of blood”....
August 14, 2023
Photography
John Waters on Peter Hujar’s ‘original, sexy’ photography
...Charles Ludlam Charles Ludlam was around right at the very beginning of the avant-garde theatre scene in New York....
April 13, 2024
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
Augmented intelligence for client-centric services
Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
3 Shades of Blue — the jazz geniuses of mid-century America
...It all began in the spring of 1959, when bassist and composer Charles Mingus entered Columbia Records’ 30th Street studio in New York and recorded a tribute to the great tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who...
March 28, 2024
Six theatre shows to see in London
London Tide, National Theatre — Dickens turned into restless river drama with music by PJ Harvey
...This great waterway plays a key role in Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend, so how fitting that Ben Power’s new adaptation, retitled London Tide, should open yards from the river....
April 17, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg — talking the talk if not walking the walk
...Vulnerability has been well covered by Brené Brown, marital conflict by John and Julie Gottman, the health benefits of connection in any number of books on loneliness . . . the list goes on....
February 7, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #55: the Eames House
...The Case Study programme was organised by John Entenza, the publisher of Arts & Architecture magazine, to provide innovative, cost-effective designs to meet the overwhelming housing demand after the war....
February 17, 2024
FT Live
Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference
Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
Donald Trump
Billionaire John Paulson to hold megadonor fundraiser for Donald Trump
...A top outside group for Haley — Americans for Prosperity Action — backed by billionaire Charles Koch’s network, has decided to focus on congressional races....
March 19, 2024
ReviewHistory books
Chris Bryant’s James and John — when British men were hanged for being gay
...The very last two men to be executed, in November 1835, were James Pratt and John Smith....
March 22, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: Olympic gold, The Mikado and an East German name
...Which Australian town is named after the wife of the telegraph pioneer Charles Todd?...
April 12, 2024
Fashion
John Singer Sargent: painter, dressmaker, creative director?
...The burgeoning fashion industry of the early 20th century was a haven for queer creatives, from the American-English designer Charles James onwards....
February 16, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 — modern love
...Meanwhile, we also take in such varied delights as Swedish-style Norwich City Hall, designed by CH James and S Rowland Pierce; the Viennese whirl of Quarry Hill flats in Leeds (architect RAH Livett); Charles...
March 4, 2024
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #59: Keats House
...Keats lodged with his friend Charles Brown on one side, and the Brawne family moved into the other....
March 16, 2024
ReviewNon-Fiction
Fragile alliance — is Nato still up for the fight?
...France has often been a reluctant participant, especially under president Charles de Gaulle, who kicked Nato out of its first Paris headquarters and even withdrew his country from the organisation’s military...
April 3, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
Biden praises anti-Netanyahu speech amid deepening rift with Israeli PM
...Asked later on Friday whether Biden wanted to see new elections in Israel or for Netanyahu to cede power, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said it was “going to be for the Israeli people...
March 15, 2024
FT Wealth Management
Wealthy investors weather the inflation storms
...“The changing macro environment has created new investment opportunities,” says Charles Jewkes, head of global wealth at Aviva Investors....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Evolving retirement strategies in an ever-changing world
What new regulatory developments mean for IFAs
Tuesday, 30 April1 Friday Street, London
John Gapper
Tesla’s board took a holiday from managing Elon Musk
...john.gapper@ft.com...
February 2, 2024
News in-depthPolitical espionage
Case of alleged Russian spy offers a glimpse of shadowy world of intelligence
...C2 returned to Afghanistan in the late 2000s, working with the Foreign Office, where he met Prince Charles and Prince William, as well as leading UK politicians including Gordon Brown and David Cameron....
February 10, 2024
Letter
Letter: No EU sense of perspective when supping with Russia
...I fully share the opinion of Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago in that regard....
February 26, 2024
Fiction
Fourteen Days — Covid-19 lockdown tales from John Grisham, Celeste Ng, Emma Donoghue and more
...In “Remembering Bertha” by De’Shawn Charles Winslow, a musician recounts his great aunt’s funeral in North Carolina as a 10-year-old boy....
January 29, 2024
Israel-Hamas war
US and Israel trade barbs as Senate leader calls for Netanyahu’s exit
...John Kirby, spokesperson for the US National Security Council, said Schumer had told the White House in advance what he was planning to say....
March 14, 2024
ReviewAlbums
John Scofield: Uncle John’s Band album review — flowing modernism
...Uncle John’s Band, his third ECM release, is a welcome return to the flowing modernism and rocky bite that made him a go-to player for the likes of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Herbie Hancock earlier...
October 13, 2023
Letter
Letter: Invented Scots tradition that was a barefaced lie
...and Charles Allen (aka John Sobieski Stuart and Charles Edward Stuart)....
December 1, 2023
Crispin Odey
Gentlemen’s club famous for ‘nieces’ night’ considers admitting Odey
...Its club secretary, Rupert Lendrum, was once equerry to King Charles when he was the Prince of Wales....
April 2, 2024
Environment
‘Sacrifice zone’: booming US LNG sector leaves its mark on the Gulf
...“All of these: Lake Charles, Port Arthur, Freeport, Corpus Christi, Brownsville.”...
November 27, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House Museums #61: Château de Rosa Bonheur
...The enchanting stone house, in the Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, feels like the setting of a Charles Perrault fairy tale....
March 30, 2024

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