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Just sometimes, a TV series succeeds in transcending the boundaries of the book
Self-absorption is a prerequisite for success in tennis. The world number one’s mistake was to take it off court
‘We raised a toast to the end of the pandemic, to life resuming at full speed’
What happens when the masters of the corporate universe lose their drive to conquer all?
What Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Theseus’s paradox have in common
The new FX series ‘Impeachment’ poses serious questions about sensationalism and public humiliation
The hit Korean series is on track to be Netflix’s most popular show but it exposes some hard truths about human behaviour
The Many Saints of Newark portrays the coming of age of television’s most complicated anti-hero
The billionaires’ race to reconfigure death is the latest manifestation of a timeless human fascination
In ancient Greece fire was a warning beacon. Now the medium has become the message
From Hawaii to the Himalayas, Simon Schama, Lucy Kellaway and other FT writers on the holidays that stayed with them
The controversy over the wildly successful short story raises questions about how much material novelists can poach from real life
A new documentary series on the writer comes at a moment when we need an infusion of his restless spirit
The writer, who died last week, shed a light on the human capacity for self-invention — and self-deception
Led by Kate Winslet, the HBO thriller offered a masterclass in character building
As Alison Bechdel’s new memoir shows, exhausting the body can still an unquiet mind
Is parting ways worth the emotional cost?
The series shows how we are all standing in the same line, accountable for every infraction or unexpected turn
Do we need another book recounting descent and degradation? The latest follows a familiar bottle-strewn and redemptive path
The tech titan’s restless ambition fits well with the playwright’s admonition that ‘security is a kind of death’
The Netflix show perfectly captures the rigid social structures holding India back from its immense potential
Two programmes that probe the lives of former members of the global elite, Gianni Agnelli and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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