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Wednesday, 29 December, 2021

Books
The books to read in 2022
From Covid’s consequences to the House of Windsor, FT books editors pick their titles to look for in the coming year
Friday, 10 December, 2021

Lunch with the FT
Colm Tóibín: ‘He’s watching every moment, as a writer does’
The celebrated novelist on Ireland’s turbulent 20th century — and tackling the life of Thomas Mann
Saturday, 4 December, 2021

InterviewFT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
We need to work together ‘to hack our way out of this mess’
Winner of the FT/McKinsey business book award aims to ‘wake people up’ to the dangers of cyber warfare
Saturday, 27 November, 2021

Life & Arts
Germany’s Covid conundrums — and goodbye to a Berlin radical
As the FT’s literary editor bids farewell to an old friend, he considers life after Merkel — and the city’s changing tech scene
Friday, 5 November, 2021

Booker Prize 2021
Damon Galgut on his Booker winner The Promise: ‘Death sets things off’
The South African’s novel impressed the judges by delving deeply into the psyche of a white clan — and a troubled nation
Wednesday, 3 November, 2021

Book awards
Damon Galgut’s ‘The Promise’ wins Booker Prize for fiction
South African’s ninth novel is based around four funerals and tells the story of a family during the post-apartheid transition
Friday, 26 March, 2021

The best of FT Weekend Spring Festival 202156 sec
Philippe Sands: ‘Betrayal is at the heart of everything he wrote’
Secrets, lies and spies’ legacies: an appreciation of author John Le Carré
Wednesday, 30 December, 2020

Books
Look to the future — what to read in 2021
From post-pandemic recovery to the love life of robots, here are some of the best reads
Sunday, 13 December, 2020

John le Carré
Master of cold war spy novel John le Carré dies
Former intelligence officer elevated hard-boiled genre to a literary form exploring ethical and political dilemmas
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Tuesday, 8 December, 2020

FT SeriesTriumph of the small booksellers
Why we returned to reading
Literary editor Frederick Studemann on how bookshops proved resilient through the lockdowns of 2020
Friday, 20 November, 2020

Fiction
Booker winner Douglas Stuart on the journey of Shuggie Bain
The Glaswegian author voices pride and sadness on being recognised for his unflinching novel about a troubled working-class upbringing
Friday, 6 November, 2020

Retail sector
Bookshops fight back as pandemic sends consumers online
Independents aim to boost earnings with ‘socially conscious’ alternative to Amazon
Thursday, 22 October, 2020

Germany
Even Germany’s localism is questioned in the pandemic
While the case is being made for regionalism in England, flaws in the model are being exposed
Thursday, 8 October, 2020

Nobel prizes
American poet Louise Glück awarded Nobel literature prize
Swedish academy praised ‘unmistakable poetic voice’ of former US poet laureate
Thursday, 24 September, 2020

Books
Controversy at the Booker is as old as the prize itself
A shortlist dominated by American authors is merely the latest literary scandal
Thursday, 10 September, 2020

Reporters' notebookBoris Johnson
How Johnson’s japes made it harder for Germans to criticise the EU
A new portrait of the UK prime minister notes how his troublemaking has undermined legitimate Euroscepticism
Thursday, 27 August, 2020

Books
Brace yourself for an avalanche of new books hitting the shelves
This autumn’s bumper edition of book releases leaves publishers under pressure and readers spoilt for choice
Friday, 14 August, 2020

Education
A-level results chaos will have lasting impact on class of 2021
Feel for the students who were midway through their course when the virus struck
Thursday, 23 July, 2020

Education
Learning from the Germans
Is the country’s apprentice system as good as its admirers believe?
Thursday, 9 July, 2020

German politics
Can Germany handle a Bavarian revolution?
Covid-19 outbreak at meat plant remakes Angela Merkel succession plans
Tuesday, 23 June, 2020

Language and grammar
The algos that steal your prose voice and language
Interfering machines may save you from gaffes but they also suppress your genius
Thursday, 28 May, 2020

Books
Bookshop browsing is coming back for bibliophiles
One unresolved problem is how to quarantine sampled volumes
Friday, 22 May, 2020

Books
Literary festivals — the show must go online
The coronavirus crisis has forced events into pared-down virtual programmes
Wednesday, 13 May, 2020

Florian Schneider
How Kraftwerk’s embrace of the future came to sound like nostalgia
There has been a reappraisal of ‘old’ West Germany, when the republic was younger and the world more certain
Thursday, 30 April, 2020

Light after the lockdown
Light after the lockdown — the future of books
How is the crisis changing our reading habits and accelerating the industry’s digital revolution?