Summer Books 2024 has landed 📚 Dreaming of summer holidays, we look back at the best titles of 2024 so far – and, crucially, decide what books to pack for the beach 🏖️ Watch this space, we'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week👇
Historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari: Humankind is now facing what is perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come
Carbonara is American. Most Italians hadn’t heard of pizza until the 1950s. Panettone is a modern invention.
Meet Alberto Grandi, who has dedicated his career to debunking the myths around Italian food – FREE TO READ👇
When the first trailer of Black Panther launched last year it racked up 89m views in 24 hours — here's why audiences can't get enough of Marvel's first black super hero
When a room has 30% women in it, men think it’s 50-50. When it is 50-50, they think they’re outnumbered. Just one of the fascinating statistics on how people perceive gender balance, says Laura Bates.
#ftengage
Can you remember the first time you heard Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight? With
#TwinsthenewTrend
's reaction going viral on Twitter, here's another chance to read about the story behind the song:
She's best known for her campaign
#saggyboobsmatter
, but now
@theslumflower
wants to talk about the joys of living alone — and how you only really discover who you are if you have time apart from friends and family
Gyms have closed all over the world, with restrictions placed on all sorts of other activities. But, for many, lockdowns are also inspiring a fitness revolution
Prominent pro-democracy Hong Kong activist faces up to three years over his role in anti-government protests last year. To find out more about the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Umbrella Movement leader, read his Lunch with the FT, published last year:
America’s famous separation of powers between the legislature (Congress), the executive (the presidency) and the judiciary (the Supreme Court) was a sophisticated design to check the power of one branch of government against another
In the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, some residents report hearing ‘the Hum’. Yvonne Conner, 50, has been suffering with it for 18 months – but neither her husband nor her son can hear it.
@ImogenWK
travelled there to investigate
This Stanley Kubrick exhibition celebrates how architectural the director's work was, and how obsessive he was about design, from landscapes to graphics, products to technology
Since Donald Trump took office hostility from the US left towards conservative constitutionalism has been growing sharply. The separation of powers has acted as scant check on Trump's actions
The court remains the least disrespected among the US’s three branches. Yet America’s veneration for this third branch has been waning over the past generation
‘Peaceful prosperity is an anomaly in modern Lithuanian history. Russian invasions are the norm.’
@KuperSimon
on how Lithuania is preparing to stop Putin
Then there are those who used the pandemic to dive into completely new fitness adventures. From jump rope to kickboxing, the popularity of non-gym activities has surged
He proved that Syria’s regime used chemical weapons, and unmasked the Russian 'kill teams' who poisoned Skripal and Navalny. This week, citizen journalist Eliot Higgins talks misinformation, intelligence gathering and the internet, over Lunch with the FT:
The FT has made its first music video. It’s a unique collaboration with composer
@thenitinsawhney
and the
@RoyalAlbertHall
. And it tells a story about immigration in music and numbers
Cate Blanchett has played everything from an elvish queen to Bob Dylan, earning herself two Oscars in the process. She's now tipped to pick up a third for her latest role as a lesbian music conductor in Todd Field's Tár.
Read Louis Wise’s interview:
Lee Krasner at London's Barbican is an 'unmissable' show – for the history of abstraction, as unfolding social history, and because the artist (who incidentally was also Mrs Jackson Pollock) is 'scandalously little-known'
Good morning from London. While you sip your morning coffee, read this
@htsi
interview with
@alexa_chung
(who shared her love for pyjamas and Marianne Faithfull’s voice) – it is one of our most popular articles of the week:
It has taken Edward Snowden six years to write about Edward Snowden, and you can see why in his book, says
@JanineGibson
, who helped bring his revelations about the NSA’s mass surveillance to the world
'Change in America has usually come from breaking the constitution rather than adhering to it – up to and including war,' says legal scholar Sanford Levinson. 'Not many constitutional scholars talk about that'
'[Nixon] would pay all these people to flood the local papers with letters about what a great man he was. Technology has totally changed that game' – scholar
@HC_Richardson
draws historical parallels with today’s US politics, over Lunch with the FT 👉
Such was the anticipation surrounding the live return of British singer-songwriter superstar Adele that from the opening piano chords of 'Hello', you could sense Hyde Park’s 65,000-capacity crowd holding their breath.
Read our ★★★★★ review
The first black winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year award. A viral Proms debut. There's even a bus named after him. And those are just a few of the reasons why you need to watch out for 18-year-old-cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
I wandered lonely as a cloud (in lockdown) – actor Simon Russell Beale gives new meaning to William Wordsworth's most famous poem (watch with sound!). He’ll be performing more poems at the digital
#FTWeekendFestival
on Sept 4. Tune in by booking your pass:
'If my parents hadn’t fled Afghanistan when I was 6 months old, would I have been denied an education? I am who I am because of the education Australia provided. Today, after the fall of Kabul, I believe in that cause more than ever.'
Meet
@BBCYaldaHakim
Books of the Year 2021 has landed 📚
Our annual series offering the year's best new titles, picked by FT critics and editors across all genres, is here 💫
Watch this space – we'll update this thread with new roundups throughout the week 👇
For 300 years Nigeria's kingdom of Benin had a vibrant culture of royal and religious sculptures, until British looting in 1897 scattered them all over the world. Now they’ve been brought together for the first time, digitally
Scroll down to read how 👇
Clearly it’s not the same story everywhere. Many people working from home with small children no longer have the time to exercise, while others – on furlough or otherwise – are unable to afford high-tech gadgets for their home
Books of the Year 2022 has landed 📚
Dreaming of the holidays, FT critics and editors look back at the best titles of 2022 across all genres, and share their reading lists.
Watch this space. We'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week 👇
Author Hilary Mantel has died at the age of 70.
She gave several interviews to the FT in the years following the publication of her bestseller Wolf Hall. This one, from earlier this month, was to be her last with us. In it she talks about an afterlife
Climate activist Greta Thunberg: 'If I had been normal like everyone else, I could just continue like everyone else. But since I was different, I see the world from a different perspective'
Summer Books 2022 has landed 📚
Dreaming of summer holidays, we look back at the best titles of 2022 so far – and, crucially, decide what books to pack for the beach 🏖
Watch this space – we'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week 👇
‘Any attempt to feel as though you’ve really sucked the marrow out of the world is doomed’
@oliverburkeman
reflects on the challenges & anxieties of ‘finite time’
‘It’s human! Feeling angry at God is absolutely fine’: Archbishop of Canterbury
@JustinWelby
on national and personal struggles with grief and steering the Church through the pandemic:
'Tate Modern has never had an exhibition so splendid, so grandly expansive, as the Cézanne retrospective just landed in London from Chicago.'
Find out why our visual arts critic Jackie Wullschläger is such a big fan:
Summer Books 2023 has landed 📚
Dreaming of summer holidays, we look back at the best titles of 2023 so far – and, crucially, decide what books to pack for the beach 🏖
Watch this space, we'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week👇
The
@financialtimes
' Books of the Year series is back for 2019 and it's bigger than ever! Here are 201 books to add to your reading list
#FTReadingList
Opinion: From home working and telemedicine to checking on the elderly, Simon Kuper looks at why these pandemic-related changes may have a long-term positive impact
The latest episode of our Everything Else podcast is here. What happens when the perspectives of artists and writers overlap? Listen as novelist Sheila Heti and
@griseldamb
drift through
@Tate
Modern's Bonnard exhibition early one spring morning
'If my parents hadn’t fled Afghanistan when I was 6 months old, would I have been denied an education? I am who I am because of the education Australia provided. Today, after the fall of Kabul, I believe in that cause more than ever.'
Meet
@BBCYaldaHakim
.
@RZA
: 'If it wasn’t for hip-hop you wouldn’t have had a black president.'
Read our interview with one of the most significant figures in the history of rap music, out today:
This poem went viral in India.
But now the poet and his fellow 'Miya' poets of the northeastern Indian state of Assam have been threatened with arrest.
How can one poem can cause so much tension?
@nilanjanaroy
explains:
Yanis Varoufakis' 3-point plan for what he would do in Europe if in charge:
1) common bond issued by the ECB
2) announce large-scale investment by EIB in green energy
3) one-off payment to every family in the eurozone, as a stimulus
#FTWeekendFestival
Is Big Data a boon or a curse?
At the
#FTWeekend
festival in September, Alex Karp, chief of Palantir Technologies will join the FT’s
@gilliantett
to discuss the digital innovations we all need to watch.
Book your early bird passes now 🎪
Back in the 19th century, Londoners fell in love with a new kind of apartment living: the mansion flat. Read our architecture critic Edwin Heathcote's love letter to “the most civilised mode” of urban living
‘When a community finds itself deprived of its sense of identity, because of whatever historical shock, it invents traditions to act as founding myths,’ says Grandi, who believes post-war Italians needed an identity to forget their struggles
'How people connect with each other is critical when it comes to managing a pandemic’:
@KateAlvanley
, Wigan’s director of public health and one of the FT's Women of 2020, on tackling Covid
Historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari: Humankind is now facing what is perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come
Books of the Year 2023 has landed 📚
Dreaming of the holidays, FT critics and editors look back at the best titles of 2023 across all genres, and share their reading lists.
Watch this space. We'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week👇
Calling all writers aged 18-35, have you always wanted to write for the
@financialtimes
? We’ve teamed up with
@TheBodleyHead
to offer one of you the chance to get your essay published in the FT and win £1500. Don't miss the August 16 deadline, enter here:
‘I don’t buy this talk that Putin cannot back down.’
Over Lunch with the FT, former Russian foreign minister
@andreivkozyrev
discusses working with Boris Yeltsin, the editor-turned-activist on Russia's state TV & why Putin actually believes his own lies
'Very few writers manage not just to excavate the remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that' —
@simon_schama
reviews The Mirror and the Light
Our verdict on Rihanna's Savage X Fenty show held last night in Brooklyn?
'Lke a reverse Victoria’s Secret show... the most all-inclusive, body-positive show this writer has ever witnessed, by miles'
#nyfw
Many misconceptions about a commercial pilot’s job relate to the fact that there are two of us seated at the controls. Who’s doing what — and when and why?
The answers are a function of both rank and role, says pilot
@markv747
: