• October 4 2025
  Life & Arts

  When did celebrities lose their mystery?

  The publicity circus around new film and TV releases leaves me hungry for old-fashioned opacity

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• August 23 2025
  Fictions: a photography special

  ‘Look away’, a new story by Rebecca Watson

  Written in response to a triptych by Barbara Probst, for FT Magazine’s photography special

  
• August 16 2025
  Life & Arts

  Why do we get beauty so wrong?

  It is endlessly subjective, unexpected, malleable — yet we pretend that it follows a simple formula

  
• July 12 2025
  Life & Arts

  My return to education

  Aged 21, I was sure I wouldn’t study again. Now I’m embarking on a part-time degree

  
• June 7 2025
  Theatre

  Sarah Kane’s plays are hugely influential — so why are they rarely staged?

  Her work shocked audiences and critics in the 1990s — but new revivals point to the enduring potency of the playwright’s vision

  
• March 8 2025
  Life & Arts

  What makes a good self-help book?

  Studying how our minds work is not about vague therapy jargon — it’s about paying attention

  
• January 11 2025
  Film

  Can erotic films move beyond pornography?

  ‘Babygirl’ and a new ‘Emmanuelle’ portray female desire but struggle to avoid stock fantasy

  
• November 2 2024
  Life & Arts

  Boris Johnson and the bestseller trick

  His memoir may have hit the charts but things are not quite how they seem

  
• October 16 2024
  ReviewBooks

  Gliff by Ali Smith — paranoia and control in a not too far-off future

  The fable-like story of a family shunning the rules of a surveillance state asks where our world is heading

  
• October 5 2024
  Life & Arts

  Sally Rooney and the two sides of fame

  It’s not ingratitude to acknowledge the tension between acclaim and attention

  
• July 6 2024
  Life & Arts

  The Euros give a glimpse of a purer patriotism

  Following the national team makes me aspire to an Englishness I’m comfortable with

  
• April 27 2024
  Life & Arts

  Encounters with the Westminster honeytrapper

  It took her three minutes to say she was blocking me — but the story didn’t end there

  
• March 28 2024
  In the footsteps of . . .

  Ischia — in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante

  The Neapolitan novelist remains an enigma but echoes of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ linger on its heroine’s beloved island

  
• March 22 2024
  Life & Arts

  Three cheers for the pub

  Traditional drinking holes are becoming scarcer as big chains move in, but the best of them connect you with a sense of history and community

  
• February 16 2024
  Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen

  Culture Chat: Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and friends write a novel

  In an experiment whose proceeds will go to the Authors Guild of America, 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Dave Eggers, and Celeste Ng, wrote a collaborative novel

  
• December 22 2023
  InterviewLunch with the FT

  Writer Francis Spufford: ‘I’m a sucker for a redemptive arc’

  The author on borrowing from life, the joy of fictional ‘gizmos’ — and why we need more stories

  
• October 26 2023
  ReviewFiction

  Paul Auster’s Baumgartner — in the shadow of death

  This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief

  
• February 3 2023
  The Oscars 2023: all you need to know

  Miriam Toews on her bestseller Women Talking becoming an Oscar contender

  The author’s account of the aftermath of sexual abuses in a Mennonite community has been nominated for Best Picture

  
• January 21 2023
  Person in the News

  Hanif Kureishi, a writer undaunted

  The bestselling novelist has gained a new audience through his tweets from hospital

  
• November 4 2022
  InterviewLunch with the FT

  George Saunders: ‘It’s wonderful how writing never abandons you’

  The ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ author on the life lessons of Tolstoy — and how ‘Jaws’ made him a writer

  
• September 23 2022
  ObituaryHilary Mantel

  Hilary Mantel, writer, 1952-2022

  A brilliant novelist and critic who understood her craft

  
• April 29 2022
  InterviewVisual Arts

  Artists Jane and Louise Wilson on the duality of experience

  The Turner-nominated twin sisters’ latest show reflects dynamic contrasts long evident in their film and photographic work

  
• March 12 2022
  FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties

  Rebecca Watson’s fantasy dinner party: a boozy affair at Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead

  ​​The novelist invites Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin, while Seinfeld’s Kramer makes a splash

  
• December 3 2021
  FT MagazineTheatre

  The particular power of female alliances

  ‘There’s nothing extraordinary about women being creative. It’s the creativity, the work, that’s extraordinary’

  
• September 4 2021
  FT Magazine

  Author Maggie Nelson on sex, climate and freedom

  For the writer, getting sober was liberating — and sparked her interest in the meanings of freedom