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    Jonathan Derbyshire is the FT's executive opinion editor. Before joining the FT, he was managing editor of Prospect and culture editor of the New Statesman.
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    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Kate Forbes
      What should a secular society really look like?

      The debate over Kate Forbes has focused attention on the place of religious beliefs in the public square

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Manchester Unspun — the story of the city’s resurrection

      From the opening of the Haçienda to the property boom, adopted Mancunian Andy Spinoza tells a vivid story with the pride of a native

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      ObituaryTom Nairn
      Tom Nairn, political theorist, 1932-2023

      He was best known for his writing on the fragmenting of the British union, which he viewed as inevitable

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      ObituaryAdolfo Kaminsky
      Adolfo Kaminsky, forger and photographer, 1925-2023

      The facsimiles he produced helped thousands of French Jews and other persecuted peoples

    • Sunday, 1 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      Year in a word: Polycrisis

      Multiple interlinked global emergencies have been unfolding simultaneously

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
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      Philosophy for life

      What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

    • Friday, 30 September, 2022
      ObituaryPharoah Sanders
      Pharoah Sanders, jazz musician, 1940-2022

      A leading figure in the free jazz movement, the saxophonist’s explorations pushed the outer limits of harmony and form

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Either/Or by Elif Batuman — a complex coming of age

      The novelist continues her quirky, semi-autobiographical story of student life in this amusing sequel to ‘The Idiot’

    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Metaphysical Animals — the women philosophers who countered logical positivism

      A lively and enlightening account of how four female Oxonians refuted the zealot thinking of mid-century philosophy

    • Friday, 28 January, 2022
      FT Books Essay
      Literature’s ‘enfant misérable’: the driving force behind Michel Houellebecq

      The French writer owes his standing to provocative social critique — but does his antagonistic image mask a concern for humanity?

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
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      Speak, Silence: In Search of WG Sebald — joining the holes

      This biography of the great German writer places his work at the heart of the catastrophes of 20th-century history

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      A cautionary tale for cycling converts

      A cardiac episode offers lessons in philosophy as well as the need for health checks

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      Peripheral vision: three bike routes to London’s outer edges and beyond

      Two-wheeled explorations of the capital’s outskirts peel back layers of history

    • Friday, 11 June, 2021
      ObituaryEdward de Bono
      Edward de Bono, author and polymath, 1933-2021

      The bestselling Maltese-born physician coined the phrase ‘lateral thinking’

    • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
      FT MagazineTravel
      Lurching towards a new era in freedom of movement

      ‘A trip to Porto gave me only a glimpse of what European travel might be like in the post-pandemic era’

    • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
      Football
      England’s football fans return to their natural habitat

      Match at Wembley Stadium reinforces the connection between clubs and their supporters

    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
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      Philip Roth — a life on his own terms

      Blake Bailey’s long-awaited biography does not shy away from the more controversial aspects of the writer’s career

    • Friday, 18 December, 2020
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      Gérard Houllier, football manager, 1947-2020

      French coach who took Liverpool FC to a historic treble win in 2001

    • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
      ReviewBooks
      Xstabeth by David Keenan — mystical music

      A legendary recording is at the core of this metafictional novel set between St Petersburg and St Andrews

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Universities challenged: critical theory and culture wars

      Two books consider the influence French thinkers have had on scholarship, politics and campus culture in the English-speaking world

    • Friday, 23 October, 2020
      FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
      Jonathan Derbyshire’s fantasy dinner: philosophy meets jazz

      Michel de Montaigne is the presiding spirit and Elizabeth David rustles up rustic French cuisine

    • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Time of the Magicians — the decade that changed our way of thinking

      Wolfram Eilenberger’s book touches on the intertwining lives of philosophers Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Benjamin and Cassirer

    • Friday, 18 September, 2020
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      Self-styled anarchist who played a prominent part in the Occupy Wall Street movement

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      ReviewFiction
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      Generational conflict drives this moving coming-of-age novel set in the post-punk era

    • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Red Pill, by Hari Kunzru — of paranoia and the alt-right

      A disturbing novel about the self traces a quest for order that turns into a descent into near-madness

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