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  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    Review
    Denim and Leather — how the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was forged

    Michael Hann’s entertaining history charts the rise and fall of an influential musical movement

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    Review
    Art and Crime — hair-raising tales of thieves, forgers and fraudsters

    Stefan Koldehoff and Tobias Timm investigate the billion-dollar dark side of the art market

  • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
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    Bob Mackie: ‘I’m the patron saint of drag queens’

    As a new book chronicles his career, the designer reveals what it was like to dress Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich and Cher

  • Tuesday, 30 November, 2021
    Review
    The Lyrics — how good a writer was Paul McCartney?

    This two-volume collection offers a rewarding portrait of the artist, despite its literary pretensions

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    Review
    The Lighted Window by Peter Davidson — illuminating ideas

    This is a contemplative and companionable work on the role played by glowing interiors in the nocturnal scenes of art and literature

  • Friday, 19 November, 2021
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Classical music

    Richard Fairman’s selection of must-read titles

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    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
    Best books of 2021: Visual arts

    Jackie Wullschläger selects her must-read titles

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    FT Series
    Best Books of the Year 2021

    From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics pick their favourite reads in our annual round-up of publishing highlights

  • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Feminism’s question for the western canon

    Three books reconsider art history at a time when much of the misogyny that taints famous works is still ignored

  • Friday, 25 June, 2021
    FT SeriesSummer books 2021
    Summer books of 2021: Visual arts

    Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 7 June, 2021
    Music
    The poetic legacy of Jim Morrison, the Lizard King

    The wide-ranging and often prophetic writings of The Doors’ frontman are celebrated in a new anthology

  • Thursday, 3 June, 2021
    FT Magazine: Special editions
    Design special

    From furniture designer Ini Archibong to future fabrics, via department stores and Covid-era design

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    FT SeriesWhy music matters
    Music is the key to being human

    From bone flutes to electronica, Mozart to Stormzy: Nicholas Kenyon and Michael Spitzer take two anthropological journeys into sound

  • Friday, 21 May, 2021
    Collecting
    Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021
  • Thursday, 8 April, 2021
    Review
    Letters to Camondo and The House of Fragile Things — object lessons

    Two books offer intimate yet contrasting histories of Jewish art collectors in fin-de-siècle and early 20th-century France

  • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
    ReviewPhotography
    Photography’s remarkable rise to the centre of the art world

    The medium’s 200-year evolution from novelty to vital artistic medium is examined in a new book and Paris show

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    FT Series
    Holiday gift guide 2020

    From an album of precious family memories to sculptural jewellery, our tastemakers pick the most thoughtful gifts for the festive season

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Music
    Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy on the art of writing a song

    Making music has brought stability to the singer’s often turbulent life — now he is sharing the secrets of how it’s done

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    ReviewFT Series
    Best Books of the Year 2020

    From ideas for rethinking economics and politics to pure escapism, FT writers and critics choose their favourite titles of what has been an extraordinary year for books

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Classical music

    Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Visual arts

    Jackie Wullschläger selects her must-read titles

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his must-read titles

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    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Review
    Shaping the World — a refreshing invitation to rethink sculpture

    A new book’s dialogue between two eloquent voices on art contains a vast range of concrete knowledge

  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Morozov by Natalya Semenova — the Moscow art collector

    Beguiling biography of a textile man who shaped the Russian avant-garde during dark historical dramas

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