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Reform party UK
Reform UK voter support highlights threat to Sunak’s right flank
...They’ve done quite a bit for us,’‘ said Phillis. She pointed to the pension triple lock and the Tories’ anti-immigration rhetoric....
February 16, 2024
ReviewFiction
The Librarianist by Patrick deWitt — ageing playfully
...In between times, deWitt takes us on a waltzer of a ride, twisting through Bob’s life....
June 29, 2023
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
ReviewFiction
Table for One — Yun Ko-eun’s tabletop revolution
...Amplifying all kinds of weirdness, her writing is reminiscent of Helen DeWitt’s fiction, although here the humour is more absurdist....
April 14, 2024
News in-depthMedia
US local news swamped by ‘pink slime’ as political influence ramps up
...“They’re all about laundering political influence as journalism,” said Philip Napoli, public policy professor at Duke University and director of its DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy....
April 3, 2024
ReviewFilm
The Estate — black comedy bungles promising premise
...Just when Macey is in the middle of changing Hilda’s colostomy bag, cousin Beatrice (Rosemarie DeWitt) shows up to woo Hilda in her direction, dripping insincerity and offering the services of her chef-husband...
January 12, 2023
ReviewCrime books
The Book of the Most Precious Substance — Sara Gran’s fifty shades of vellum
...Her previous trilogy of crime novels featuring Claire DeWitt — a drug-addicted private investigator pounding the streets of San Francisco — delivered a delightfully shabby anti-hero....
December 15, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFiction
Avalon — Nell Zink’s sly, subversive boy-meets-girl story
...Zink delights in mordant but humorous provocation, in the vein of her compatriots Helen DeWitt and Joy Williams....
December 30, 2022
Due Diligence
Private equity leans into the SVB wreckage Premium content
...Job moves Adam DeWitt is stepping down as chief executive of the food delivery group Grubhub....
March 15, 2023
Live news updates from July 6: More than 40 members of UK government quit, Boris Johnson sacks Michael Gove
Amazon strikes deal with US food delivery service Grubhub
...In a statement, Adam DeWitt, Grubhub chief executive, said the deal would “help Grubhub continue to deliver on our longstanding mission to connect more diners with local restaurants”....
July 6, 2022
Travel
New York in the slow lane — across the state by bike
...It was here, in 1825, that DeWitt Clinton, then governor of New York State, officially opened the New World’s greatest and most consequential feat of engineering: a 363-mile canal connecting America’s eastern...
November 26, 2022
US midterm elections
How the youth vote helped the Democrats avert an election rout
...“I heard a lot of pollsters talk about whether young people would show up like they have in recent elections,” said Carolyn DeWitt, president of Rock the Vote, which aims to engage young Americans in politics...
November 11, 2022
Amazon.com
Amazon strikes deal with US food delivery service Grubhub
...Adam DeWitt, Grubhub’s chief executive, said in a statement: “Amazon has redefined convenience with Prime and we’re confident this offering will expose many new diners to the value of Grubhub+ while driving...
July 6, 2022
ReviewFiction
Temporary, by Hilary Leichter — risky business
...In the tradition of satirists from Jonathan Swift to Helen DeWitt, Leichter builds a world that’s absurd, but familiar enough to give pause....
February 5, 2021
ObituaryCharles Jencks
Charles Jencks, architect and architectural historian, 1939-2019
...Charles Jencks was born in Baltimore in 1939 to Gardner Platt Jencks, a concert pianist and modernist composer, and Ruth DeWitt Pearl....
October 17, 2019
FT AlphavilleJamie Powell
Deliveroo and the profitability problem
...different dynamics to the UK -- particularly in terms of urban density and competition -- the accompanying shareholder letter from Grubhub chief executive Matt Maloney and chief financial officer Adam DeWitt...
November 12, 2019
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
French Exit by Patrick deWitt — French disconnection
...And deWitt was presumably conscious of what he was doing when he had a bird fly in “an oblong circle”....
October 19, 2018
Theatre to watch in London and beyond
An acting masterclass from Gillian Anderson in All About Eve at the Noël Coward Theatre, London
...The live-video technique also works on matters such as goings-on in a different room at a party, or Eve’s secret reactions in her hotel bathroom as devious critic Addison DeWitt, in her bedroom, probes her...
February 13, 2019
ReviewFilm
The Sisters Brothers — John C Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix star in a daring and surreal Western
...Adapting a novel by Patrick deWitt, Audiard turns the tight-packed plot into a kind of fissile infernalism, a nitro-nihilism....
April 3, 2019
Venice Film Festival 2018
The Sisters Brothers, Non-Fiction — French film-makers take different paths
...Adapted from Patrick deWitt’s novel, The Sisters Brothers pairs Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly as a boozy hothead and his more sensitive counterpart on the trail of a high-minded detective (Jake Gyllenhaal...
September 6, 2018
Fund management
Movers & shakers: August 7
...Ms Phillis previously worked at ICAP as chief risk and compliance officer for the London-based interdealer broker....
August 6, 2017
Life & Arts
Property law: can I keep a racehorse in my back garden?
...Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP The legal issues discussed in this column refer to England and Wales and are for illustrative purposes only and should not be considered legal advice Photographs: AFP; Kathy deWitt...
February 9, 2017
Letter
Campuses have a duty to offer a welcoming environment
...Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Columbia University, New York, NY, US Letter in response to this letter: Acknowledge that Rhodes was a complex character / From Robin Cooke-Hurle...
December 28, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
‘Undermajordomo Minor’, by Patrick DeWitt
...It wasn’t a cliché, it was a request to suspend disbelief and relax into fable — and I should have expected no less from a writer as experienced as DeWitt....
October 23, 2015
Life & Arts
Danny Leigh on the new wave of Westerns
...The acclaimed French director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) is now working on The Sisters Brothers, an adaptation of the novel of Gold Rush assassins by Patrick DeWitt, and an imminent remake of The Magnificent...
September 2, 2016
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Maker of Swans’, by Paraic O’Donnell
...Pitched somewhere between gothic fantasy and magical-realist fable, it’s tempting to compare The Maker of Swans to works such as Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell or Patrick DeWitt’s more recent Undermajordomo...
February 12, 2016

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