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ReviewBiography and memoir
Better Broken Than New — Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s entertaining, shocking memoir
...Her early work reads like a punchy, lyrical combination of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende mixed with the doughty British outlandishness of, say, Rose Macaulay or Nancy Mitford...
January 10, 2024
Life & Arts
FT Weekend Quiz: American Sons of Liberty, Nancy Mitford and ‘The Silver Chair’
...For which soup did Jane Austen’s friend Martha Lloyd write a recipe beginning, “Take a large calf’s head. Scald off the hair”?...
February 10, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewAudio books
Best new audio books — classics reinvented and reimagined
...Finally — and rather freer in its approach to updating a classic — comes India Knight’s Darling (Penguin Audio, 7 hrs/59 mins), which takes Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love and its free-spirited heroine...
December 5, 2022
US-China relations
US bank chiefs warn of China exit if Taiwan is attacked
...His comments were echoed by Jane Fraser and Jamie Dimon, the chief executives of Citi and JPMorgan, respectively. Dimon evoked a sense of patriotism in his response....
September 21, 2022
FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
Please, spare a thought for holidaying journalists
...“By contrast, we found Nancy over by the Caffè Nero tapping furiously into a laptop....
August 19, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Red wave fails to materialise
...Kevin McCarthy, who will replace Nancy Pelosi as House speaker should Republicans regain control of the House, said his majority would prioritise the economy, safety, freedom and the prosecution of criminals...
November 9, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
FirstFT
FirstFT: Strong dollar wipes billions off US corporate earnings
...Meanwhile, the controversy surrounding Nancy Pelosi’s planned trip to Taiwan is deepening....
July 25, 2022
FT SeriesWomen of 2021
The FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021
...Warren is the senior United States senator from Massachusetts Mary Barra Chair and CEO, General MotorsBY JANE FRASER What kind of car should Mary Barra drive?...
December 2, 2021
FT Books Essay
Green shoots — words of hope on the climate crisis
...As recently as 2008, former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich filmed an advert on the need for climate action with current Democratic speaker Nancy Pelosi....
October 20, 2021
The home in 50 objects
The home in 50 objects #48: the sofa (c1830)
...From Jane Austen to the Royle Family, the drama of life is played out on the sofa. It is not quite Loaf-level plushness....
June 25, 2021
ReviewTheatre
Moira Buffini’s comic thriller Manor sets out the state of the nation
...And then there’s Ted, a smooth, suited-and-booted neo-fascist (“I’m exceptional”), who spies in the manor a talismanic headquarters for his jingoistic outfit and in Diana (Nancy Carroll) a woman desperate...
November 25, 2021
The Oscars 2022: everything you need to know
The unstoppable rise of Jessie Buckley
...She turned down the offer to understudy Nancy in Oliver!, instead taking a part in Trevor Nunn’s revival of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music....
December 8, 2021
Transcript
Brazil’s bullish finance minister
...It includes well-known names like US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and actress Scarlett Johansson. Now, usually the FT interviews the winners....
December 3, 2021
Television
TV in 2021: escape into breeches-busters and fantasy
...Is it the book we wish Jane Austen had written?...
January 17, 2021
US presidential election 2020
Pence breaks with Trump allies over election challenge
...“The Gohmert lawsuit has zero legal merit and is yet another sabotage of our democracy,” said Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House....
January 1, 2021
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
ReviewAudio books
Audio books to transport the mind away from lockdown anxieties
...Elsewhere in gently unfolding family dramas, do consider Elizabeth Jane Howard’s Cazalet Chronicles , not least because the early volumes are narrated by Howard’s life-long friend, the late actor Jill Balcon...
April 22, 2020
The Big Read
‘A coup d’état attempted by Trump’: America’s failed insurrection
...On Wednesday, he scribbled a note to Ms Pelosi reading: “Nancy, Bigo was here, you bitch.”...
January 8, 2021
ReviewHistory books
Scoff — how class has influenced Britons’ eating habits
...She sprinkles in the likes of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens (both of whom she’s written books about) and George Orwell....
November 13, 2020
ReviewTheatre
Profanity and bawdy wit enliven old age in Grand Horizons on Broadway
...Nancy (Jane Alexander) breaks the silence to demand a divorce. Bill (James Cromwell) monosyllabically agrees....
January 24, 2020
FT MagazinePilita Clark
Pilita Clark’s fantasy dinner party
...Mitford and I would smoke at the table and if she showed the slightest hint of boredom, I’d tell her to zip it: she only got an invite after a coin toss went against Jane Austen....
May 30, 2020
Crossword
Crossword and Polymath competitions suspended
...England Crossword 16,218: Richard Gibson, London; M Amey, Macclesfield; George Warburg, Connecticut Polymath 1,030: David Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy...
June 5, 2020
US presidential election
Sanders to ‘assess his campaign’ after three more losses to Biden
...Mnuchin last week, before going home to Burlington, Vermont, with his wife, Jane....
March 18, 2020
ReviewHistory books
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante — ball gowns and economics
...At the root of the ritual lies a simple problem of oversupply: what to do with “all these girls”, as Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet would wonder aloud many years later....
March 13, 2020
House & Home
After months of virtual socialising, the dinner party is back
...The Nancy Tablescape by Naylor-Leyland is for four people and costs £365 — and that does not even include cutlery or a tablecloth....
July 3, 2020
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top news
...Jane Goodall shares thoughts on humans, chimpanzees and panic buying from self-isolation in England....
March 27, 2020

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