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An enjoyable short-story collection tackles existential woes and contemporary concerns
Stephen Sharkey’s adaptation creates a rich mix of multicultural family life and music
This well-acted play about the battle for school places delves clunkily into issues of racism and anti-Semitism
A bracing pluralism courses through this impressive new collection of essays
At a New York café, the writer talks about 21st-century readers, faith and the failure of liberal thought
A story of two young dancers is a convincing study of rootlessness and the alienation of fame
Rights for gay people, women and other groups are in the ascendant but the working class gets dismissed as an embarrassing relic
The founder of the Marrakech Biennale talks about this year’s edition of the ‘bridge-building’ event
FT books editor Lorien Kite on Granta’s latest selection of the Best of Young British Novelists
Zadie Smith’s fourth novel extends her long investigation into ‘voice’
Writing a book about one’s adopted country is the solution to the integration issue
Britain will regret the current wave of library closures but that does not mean its network must stay the same
Even on the left, long suspicious of nationalism, more are voicing pride in Englishness, writes Brian Groom
Zadie Smith et al weigh the creative, immersive, vital activity in ‘Stop What You’re Doing And Read This!’
Can you make money from modern first editions?
The novelist Alan Hollinghurst drinks a fruit cocktail and talks to Emily Stokes about vegetarianism, his days as a raver and the unknowable truths of biography
The government must focus on necessities and cut frills
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