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Nilanjana Roy
The bliss — and benefits — of slow reading
...He was in his forties; anywhere from 10 to 30 readers would join, navigating a couple of pages of Joyce’s notoriously opaque novel aloud most months....
January 1, 2024
HTSI
A remembrance of Diet Cokes past
...According to writer Virginia Faulkner and diplomat Jerry Wadsworth, questions guaranteed to liven conversation include, “Are you a bed wetter?” and, “Do you like string?” Try them some time....
October 1, 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
ReviewMusic
The Hours, Metropolitan Opera review — Joyce DiDonato is outstanding as Virginia Woolf
...Joyce DiDonato, who emerges as the vocal standout, is gripping as Virginia Woolf, constrained for mental health reasons in 1923 to write her novel Mrs Dalloway in tranquil suburban Richmond while deeply...
November 24, 2022
InterviewMusic
Giving new voice to Virginia Woolf at the Metropolitan Opera
...Joyce DiDonato will play Virginia Woolf, Renée Fleming is Clarissa Vaughan and Kelli O’Hara, whose career straddles Broadway and opera, is Laura Brown....
November 12, 2022
FT Magazine
John Banville on his turn to crime writing
...Some writers become gloomier with age — Hardy, Ibsen, Beckett — while others — Joyce, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf — kick up their heels and indulge in transcendent play....
September 2, 2023
Due Diligence
Carl Icahn goes from activist to Hindenburg target Premium content
...(Think Carlyle co-chief turned Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin, Blackstone boss Stephen Schwarzman’s stint advising Donald Trump, and more.)...
May 3, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewNon-Fiction
Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector — magical mystery tour
...Reading Lispector — who, in the words of one of her translators, “looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf” — is unlike reading anyone else....
September 13, 2022
FT Books Essay
Ulysses at 100: the birth of the modern
...sort of death knell for the narrative poem, just as Ulysses set about killing off the single-perspective, the all-knowing authorial voice — firing the starting gun for a wave of “modernist” writing, from Virginia...
January 19, 2022
ReviewFiction
Ruth & Pen by Emilie Pine — mid-life and teenage anxieties cross in Dublin
...She is well versed in the tradition of novels set on a single day, mentioning Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway directly and, inevitably perhaps, invoking James Joyce’s Ulysses (the final word of Ruth’s story...
May 20, 2022
ReviewMusic
An all-star line-up of female composers at National Sawdust in Brooklyn
...Wednesday’s parade led off with Prestini’s “Distance to the Market”, followed by Missy Mazzoli’s evocative “As Long as we Live”, based on a poem by Walt Whitman; Molly Joyce’s haunting “East River,” to Christopher...
December 21, 2021
ReviewTelevision
Hemingway on BBC4 charts the eventful life of a man of action
...Where’s our six-part series on Sylvia Plath, or Virginia Woolf? To be fair, Papa Hemingway did lead an incredibly active life for a writer....
June 25, 2021
US politics & policy
Biden withdraws nomination of Tanden to top economic role
...Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, agreed with the Republican criticism, effectively dooming Tanden’s chances....
March 3, 2021
ReviewAudio books
Best of audio books — from JK Rowling mysteries to Divine Comedy
...’s narration of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse — repays a close listen....
October 19, 2020
HTSI
The Cause: ‘Why I’m putting women back on the shelf’
...Past highlights have included Vanessa Bell’s copy of The Voyage Out by her sister, Virginia Woolf, and Jane Austen’s best friend’s copy of Sense & Sensibility....
October 1, 2020
FT SeriesCollecting: Art Basel in Basel 2020
Russell Tovey: ‘Art has become a huge part of my life’
...He was in New York when the crisis started, playing Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. They only had nine previews before it was closed after an usher tested positive for the virus....
June 13, 2020
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FT Books Essay
‘Summer’ concludes Ali Smith’s fine quartet
...Among others, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Keats, Shakespeare, Dickens and the un-English Rainer Maria Rilke, walk and talk in her pages — while James Joyce is present through Smith’s heady addiction...
August 20, 2020
ReviewFiction
Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride — finely controlled and complex
...Ireland), and sometimes — for variety’s sake — Virginia Woolf....
January 31, 2020
ReviewFiction
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann — melancholy monologue
...Her detailed observations on time and memory evoke Katherine Mansfield’s short stories, her interior soliloquies Dorothy Richardson’s epic Pilgrimage series; but the lodestar is Virginia Woolf....
August 9, 2019
Books
What to read in isolation? Leading FT writers give their tips
...For some, this may be the chance to finally get around to finishing Joyce or Proust, or to seek solace in works elsewhere....
March 20, 2020
David Allen Green25 min
Dominic Cummings's statement: a guided tour
...Instead of his elaborate, almost rambling style in his blog posts, which are more akin to James Joyce or Virginia Woolf, we get Philip Larkin mixed with Ernest Hemingway....
May 27, 2020
FT Magazine
My night-time stroll through London’s past and future
...The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, Scoop by Evelyn Waugh, To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, Ulysses by James Joyce. Which books will be sold here in 20 years, if any books are sold here at all?...
August 30, 2019
ReviewFiction
Lanny by Max Porter — a dreamlike fable of contemporary English folklore
...After all, two of the last century’s greatest novels, James Joyce’s Ulysses and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, are set on a single day and are replete with the kind of historical details found in Porter’...
February 22, 2019
ReviewLife & Arts
Joyce DiDonato, Wigmore Hall, London — beauty and range of a voice at its peak
...Composer Jake Heggie and mezzo-soprano of the moment Joyce DiDonato go back a long way....
December 19, 2017
InterviewHow to Lead
Nobel Foundation’s Lars Heikensten: dealing with crises
...In decades past, it has failed to give prizes to towering literary figures including Virginia Woolf, Jorge Luis Borges and James Joyce....
July 1, 2018
InterviewUS politics & policy
Voters opt for diversity even in the era of Trump
...In New Hampshire, Joyce Craig defeated a Republican incumbent to become the first female mayor in the 266-year history of Manchester....
November 11, 2017

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