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Two conversation-filled, Negroni-fuelled hours with the novelist Deborah Levy ft.com/content/dbbb9301-b92a…
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Thank you @battlelaura and @ftweekend for a beautifully written piece.
On the banks of the Thames, 2,000 years of history ft.com/content/95b96b02-8801… via @ft
#mudlarking #mudlark
Writer Kim Stanley Robinson: ‘If the world fails, business fails’ ft.com/content/3aa6af6c-d0dc… via @ft
Want to know which fiction titles to buy / give / talk about this winter? Here's the FT's list, complied by @andydickson and me
ft.com/content/57b3653e-1648… via @ft
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🚨Some (im)personal news: thrilled to say that I’ve joined @ftweekend Life&Arts as a senior editor, commissioning Books coverage and other things besides for the next nine months. Amazing colleagues, incredible section. Exciting times!
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If you want to know what FT journalists think you should be reading this summer, you can read for free on an iPhone by downloading FT Edit. apps.apple.com/us/app/ft-edi…
Want to know which novels to take on your summer holiday? Here are my recommendations ft.com/content/79becc39-6ded…
Best summer books of 2023: Fiction in translation ft.com/content/ebd55a2f-b1f2…
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Looking for the perfect beachfront novel? 🏖️
FT Books' @battlelaura's reading list features new fiction titles by Deborah Levy, Tan Twan Eng, Brandon Taylor, @DianaEvansOP, Claire Kilroy, @_catherinelacey and more 📚 #summerbooks2023 ft.com/content/79becc39-6ded…
Best summer books of 2023: Visual arts ft.com/content/4d95294b-a9c5…
Best summer books of 2023: Business ft.com/content/67fb4865-8913…
Best summer books of 2023: Economics ft.com/content/f52b45e8-a411…
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Summer Books 2023 has landed 📚
Dreaming of summer holidays, we look back at the best titles of 2023 so far – and, crucially, decide what books to pack for the beach 🏖
Watch this space, we'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week👇 ft.com/summerbooks2023
A joyful books essay by Olivia Judson on birds and what they can teach us — plus, check out @sdbernard's graphic on the mind-blowing journeys of 5 migratory swifts ft.com/content/08d6bf76-e87b…
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NEW: Map animation showing the incredible 26,000km migratory journey of 5 Beijing swifts to Namibia and back. So nice to make a map that isn't about war or pollution or El Niño!
ft.com/content/08d6bf76-e87b…
#gistribe #dataviz
Cormac McCarthy, writer, 1933-2023 ft.com/content/9120c16b-5aaf…
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Truly extraordinary #Auspol revelations in this exclusive behind-the-scenes report by @g_lanktree this morning about how Boris Johnson sold out Britain’s farmers over dinner with Aus PM Scott Morrison. Who knew Brandis was this wily?
politico.eu/article/boris-jo…
Writing Time Shelter was an act of resistance: why should populist propaganda “seduce the people in a better way than me as a storyteller?” excellent i/v w. International Booker winners Georgi Gospodinov & Angela Rodel by @mialevitin ft.com/content/fda1e637-8dac…
"He made a speciality of low-life subject matter but he was always a literary critic, at heart" — a wonderful tribute from @xlorentzen ft.com/content/c0df7ab3-8512…
