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Fiction
James by Percival Everett — a master at the peak of his powers
...Everett has cited Twain as an influence; James aims to give an iconic American character a voice he has always been denied....
April 3, 2024
FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
Get the party started – eveningwear to dazzle in
...Schiaparelli red brass Mouth earring (part of a pair), POA Penelope wears Burberry cotton/silk argyle rollneck, £1,490, and linen/silk jacquard kilt, £1,650....
November 24, 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
The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
‘American Fiction’ and real-life publishing’s attitude to race
...So went the American author Percival Everett’s delighted response to the movie adaptation of his book Erasure under the title American Fiction — a sharp-edged dramedy about a novelist frustrated by the limits...
January 26, 2024
ReviewFilm
American Fiction film review — joyfully barbed satire on race and writing
...The movie is adapted from Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure....
February 1, 2024
Inside Politics
Rishi Sunak doesn’t help his chances amid a dire public realm
...I’m having a pause in which I re-read Percival Everett’s Erasure, the enjoyable novel that became the movie American Fiction, before diving into Herron’s standalone novels....
March 27, 2024
ReviewScience books
The enduring mystery of how humans learned to speak
...universal grammar) or Daniel Everett more recently in How Language Began (which leans towards culture rather than genetics)....
March 14, 2024
FT Live
Business of Luxury Summit
Gathering leaders in luxury for the 20th year
Sunday, 19 MayVenice, Italy
ReviewFiction
Ours by Phillip B Williams — a place of safety
...film American Fiction, adapted from Percival Everett’s Erasure, which so acerbically satirises the topic....
February 15, 2024
ReviewFiction
Dr No by Percival Everett — Bond-esque villainy with added verbal trickery
...If you want to read something else like a Percival Everett novel, it’ll just have to be another Percival Everett novel — which isn’t a problem, as there are 23 of them....
March 9, 2023
FT SeriesHow to host a cocktail party
Alex Eagle: ‘It’s cosy, which really works with the gothic vibe’
...They include poet and artist Julianknxx; Eagle’s 21-year‑old stepdaughter Libby Joy; Andrea Gelardin, former creative director for Lady Gaga; and yoga powerhouse Adrienne Everett....
November 24, 2023
HTSI
HTSI editor’s letter: are you ready to party?
...Jeremy Everett and Delphine Danhier have collated the season’s more adventurous looks and, along with models Penelope Ternes and Chaima Ameziane, they’ve created the dress code for the ultimate house party...
November 25, 2023
Personal pensions
Pension experts quiz absence of bill on chancellor’s investment reforms
...“No pensions bill means that many pension policies will remain in limbo,” said David Everett, head of pensions research with LCP, the consultants....
November 7, 2023
News in-depthEnergy sector
Osage Nation seeks damages from Enel over wind turbines on tribal land
...That’s all you had to do,” said Osage Minerals Council chair Everett Waller, a descendant of the tribal members whose murders in the 1900s are featured in the Martin Scorsese film....
January 27, 2024
HTSIHow To Give It 2022
Alissa Everett’s mission to humanise the people behind the headlines
...Alissa Everett was working as a photojournalist covering the conflict in Iraq in 2003 when she met an inspiring Mines Advisory Group (MAG) volunteer....
December 9, 2022
FT SeriesHouse & Home Ski Property Special
Ski-home buyers follow the snow in the face of climate change
...Everett-Allen says lower-altitude Alpine resorts with north-facing grassy slopes, such as Villars-sur-Ollon in Switzerland, can prove more snow-sure than higher, south-facing slopes, such as Nendaz....
November 17, 2023
News in-depthBoeing Co
Boeing chief Dave Calhoun’s leadership under scrutiny after 737 Max crisis
...Boeing had been planning to open another 737 production line in Everett, Washington in the second half of the year....
January 26, 2024
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Jewellery
Jewellery makers respond to surge in demand for men’s accessories
...little tie pin or lapel pin,” says Frank Everett, Sotheby’s vice-chair of jewellery....
November 17, 2023
Letter
Letter: Billions become trillions
...Everett Dirksen’s perhaps apocryphal remark: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon we are talking real money.”...
May 4, 2023
Books
What to read in 2024
...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
December 28, 2023
ReviewFilm
Olivia Colman, Paul Giamatti and Jeffrey Wright films light up Toronto
...Adapted from the sharp 2001 novel Erasure by Percival Everett, American Fiction has a redoubled sting today, and its potshots at pieties and stereotypes might even court a little controversy. ★★★★☆ Alexander...
September 14, 2023
ReviewFilm
Mad About the Boy — the Noël Coward story swooningly told
...Rupert Everett reads from Coward’s diaries with a tamped-down, melancholy edge; Alan Cumming narrates as if worried we might walk out should he pause for breath....
June 1, 2023
Maritime accidents and safety
UK and Pakistani businessmen aboard missing Titanic submersible
...The tragedy has been a source of intrigue globally ever since, with a 1997 Hollywood film rekindling interest. OceanGate was founded in Everett, Washington, in 2009 by entrepreneur Stockton Rush....
June 19, 2023
Photography
Novelist Mariana Enríquez on Alessandra Sanguinetti’s ‘brutal, beautiful’ photographs
...In one image, they float peacefully in a stream, like two Ophelias from the John Everett Millais painting....
October 21, 2023
Working It
Are you doing hybrid wrong?
...In real life, Everett is a boundary-pushing star of the New York cabaret scene, but this loosely autobiographical show is understated, funny — and a bittersweet joy after a bruising day at work thinking...
June 14, 2023
Disrupted Times
West scrambles to respond to Chinese electric vehicle dominance
...Some good news A giant leap for womankind: trailblazing 19th-century UK astronomers Annie Maunder and Alice Everett have had two asteroids named in their memory....
September 11, 2023
HTSI
Meet the Mayo jeweller who’s conquered Rodeo Drive
...That’s what put him in the sights of Frank Everett, senior vice president of Sotheby’s New York, when they met five years ago....
November 22, 2022

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