Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
Related Topics
...Every writer has weaknesses and blind spots. A good writers’ room has fewer. No wonder that one of the most admired novelists of our time, Elena Ferrante, may in fact be a writers’ room....
...So we have wine writer Hannah Crosbie on today. She recently wrote a column for us called “What young wine drinkers want”. And she’s the founder of a wine club aimed at younger drinkers in London....
...Wine writer Hannah Crosbie joins Lilah to give us a primer on what young wine drinkers want. Why are pét nats, skin-contact wines, and chilled reds suddenly everywhere? We love hearing from you....
...Writers including Kate Atkinson, David Nicholls and Julian Barnes are fans; this month, three new editions of her books will appear in the UK....
...Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun has been handed a suspended death sentence in China five years after being detained on espionage charges....
...My guest is Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of Russia and a writer on world affairs for The Atlantic. So how serious is the Russian security threat to Europe?...
One writer goes into the deep
From Michael Falter, London NW8, UK
...(For a restorer, the way time moves through a painting is a concrete fact; for a writer, the concept is rich in metaphor.)...
The literary phenomenon has a legion of fans, many of whom found her through social media
...A brilliant, if flawed, polymath but, perhaps fortunately, no food writer. Nowhere near enough adjectives for a start. He had a problem eating peaches (“do I dare”? Why on earth not!)...
...Democratic freedoms can vanish in a gunshot, warns the Nigerian writer in a powerful film featuring poetry, dance, and an original score from Made Kuti, the grandson of Fela Kuti....
...When he hears that I’m a writer he takes me under his wing....
...“We left the house in 45 minutes,” the writer says. “I had a suitcase with me that weighed precisely 7.5kg. You can say I arrived with nothing.”...
The writer’s Dickensian doorstopper of a book features a motley crew of characters in a London riven by privilege, greed and ego
Even a wine writer has their limits — for example, tasting 50 bottles of champagne
Lex is produced by eleven expert FT investment writers based in five time zones
...On today’s episode, writer Simon Chilvers talks us through what’s behind the rise of literary fashion....
...Mexican writer-director Michel Franco specialises in films of a rather sobering tenor — the sort that viewers might want to gird their loins for, just a little....
...His breakout novel, 1996’s Death and the Penguin, placed an ambitious obituary writer and his depressive pet penguin Misha in the middle of a series of mysterious mafia killings....
Forecasts for the new year, from who will win the US election to whether Musk’s X is heading for bankruptcy and the future of the Parthenon marbles
...Not for his three-decade-long career as a writer. No, not that. It’s his headgear. “I’ve just had my hat admired,” he announces as I shake his hand....
But can she take on one writer and her two new hips?
...When the actors ask the writer what the ending should be, he answers that it should tie everything together....
International Edition