Don’t be fooled by Demi Moore’s Golden Globes success
Moore’s win is seen as a sign that Hollywood no longer pigeonholes female stars. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves ...
The last days of Walter Benjamin
Benjamin was a generally unhappy, unlucky and unwell man. He was also the most original thinker of modernity, obsessed with the politics of culture, the possibilities of new technology and the ...
The race to stop ‘predatory marriage’ in old age
If the law now changes, those first-marriage children would retain their rights under the old will — to the possible disadvantage of the new partner and any new children. But solicitors opposed to ...
‘Nosferatu invented horror films, so I am in conversation with cinema history’ – Robert Eggers
The anglophile American film director discusses his ultra-gothic, jumpscare-filled reworking of the ultimate vampire movie ...
James Turrell’s quest to build the most ambitious artwork of our time
At 81, the artist will unveil new work around the world — but all roads lead back to his majestic Roden Crater Project ...
Franz steps out of the shadow of his ‘Kafkaesque’ world
The Morgan Library’s sparkling centenary exhibition shows there was far more to the writer than the solitary antiheroes of his work ...
The relationship recession is going global
Relationships are not just becoming less common, but increasingly fragile. In egalitarian Finland, it is now more common for couples who move in together to split up than to have a child, a sharp ...
50 holidays to take in 2025
FT travel writers offer 12 months of holiday inspiration ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — Greenland, USA
This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all things happening in US politics. I’m Kasia Broussalian, and this week we’re asking: why is Donald Trump ...
David Lodge, novelist and academic, 1935-2025
David Lodge once confessed to having a fondness for binary structures. Imagine, he wrote, “two professors passing each other over the North Pole on their way to exchange jobs . . . or a parallel ...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength ...
Can erotic films move beyond pornography?
In 1974, the French erotic film Emmanuelle was released in cinemas and caused a sensation with its profusion of nudity and sex. Two decades before the prevalence of online porn, here was sex on screen ...