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Saturday, 4 February, 2023

Television
Marie Kondo’s epiphany proves there is no magic in clinical tidiness
There is wonder in a dusky corner — no one would believe a door to Narnia existed in the back of a colour-coded wardrobe
Thursday, 14 October, 2021

ReviewFiction
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr — a story of survival
The Pulitzer-winner’s new novel follows a tale through time and makes the case that all stories are, in the end, the same
Friday, 27 November, 2020

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: Yellen’s second act| Hitchhiker’s guide to the City| Lunch with the McDonald’s chief executive
Friday, 13 November, 2020

ReviewBiography and memoir
The ‘definitive account’ of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark’s biography, Red Comet, frees the poet of decades of mythmaking and cultural baggage
Friday, 2 October, 2020

Food & Drink
Chill descends on two continents divided by common appliances
US jibe on lack of ice cubes in Europe provokes intense debate on measure of civilisation
Monday, 21 September, 2020

ReviewFiction
Just Like You — Nick Hornby’s Brexit parable
An unlikely north London romance suggests that love can overcome tribalism
Tuesday, 15 September, 2020

Capitalism
‘Selling Sunset’ could be capitalism’s comeback
The venal real estate reality show is a window into a world of excess untroubled by the pandemic
Friday, 7 August, 2020

Books
An ode to the poems almost foregone
Fears that poetry would be scrapped from GCSE English brought lyric lovers out in force
Friday, 31 July, 2020

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: India’s deepening coronavirus crisis | Big Tech leaders squirm | Selfie feminism on Instagram
Friday, 17 July, 2020

ObituaryNaya Rivera
Naya Rivera, actress and singer, 1987-2020
Glee’s sharp-tongued ‘megabitch’ who never missed her mark
Friday, 3 July, 2020

ReviewBiography and memoir
The Mystery of Charles Dickens, by AN Wilson
A compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist and the contradictions of his character
Friday, 26 June, 2020

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: Wirecard’s rise and fall | homeless in a pandemic | FT fiction recommendations
Friday, 5 June, 2020

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: George Floyd protests: an American story | Facebook staff’s ‘virtual walkouts’ | the joy of Ikea
Friday, 3 April, 2020

Television
Tiger King: a human zoo for all the family
Facing an amorphous viral threat, we flock to a bizarre show offering the more tangible terror of tooth and claw
Friday, 27 March, 2020

Long Story Short
A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday
Cordelia Jenkins’ top reads this week: coronavirus ‘wartime economy’ — reality vs rhetoric | a doctor’s dilemma | lockdown cooking
Friday, 13 March, 2020

ReviewHistory books
The Season: A Social History of the Debutante — ball gowns and economics
Kristen Richardson’s social and economic history makes a more absorbing story than any period drama
Friday, 31 January, 2020

Football
Do not deprive us of our right to football banter
Sport chat is the essential social lubricant that every workplace needs
Monday, 30 December, 2019

Language and grammar
Year in a word: Shitposting
A social media phenomenon that took the impulse to disrupt to extremes
Tuesday, 3 September, 2019

UK schools
Why getting out of the classroom matters
School trips are in decline, but research shows how valuable they are
Friday, 26 July, 2019

Television
Shakespearean advice to the ‘Love Island’ finalists
Contestants on the TV show are like captives of the Elizabethan court, vying to display their virtues
Thursday, 17 January, 2019

Newsletter
Opinion today: Theresa May’s final roll of the dice
She must set aside her vanity to behave as a prime minister rather than a party leader
Thursday, 10 January, 2019

Newsletter
Opinion today: How Apple’s iPhone lost its shine
Tech group will have to diversify if it wants to relive the glories of the past decade
Tuesday, 25 December, 2018

Climate change
Year in a Word: Wildfire
The deadly surge in serious blazes in 2018 has seen them dubbed as the ‘new abnormal’
Wednesday, 19 December, 2018

Newsletter
Opinion today: Nationalism’s Faustian bargain
Xenophobia is employed as a path to power
Monday, 10 December, 2018

Newsletter
Opinion today: Time to crack down on buybacks?
Investing in the future is a better way to boost value than corporate spending spree