Art

Alameddine’s spectacular novel is rendered through the refreshingly honest lens of Dr. Mina. A trans woman, born the third son of a traditional Lebanese family, she leaves Beirut for Harvard, dragging bitter memories of an abusive mother…
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Americans love front yards with big, carefully manicured lawns. In fact, homeowners spent a record $47.8bn in lawn and garden retail purchases in 2018 alone. Then there’s the water usage: 9tn gallons a year nationwide just on gardening. We…
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This autumn, some unusual creatures will be coming out of the wilds to bring humour and mischief to unsuspecting passersby. In Colorado, fluorescent-feathered, life-sized polar bears captured in human-like positions – from yoga poses…
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Lincoln Michel’s debut novel, THE BODY SCOUT (Orbit, 356 pp., $27), blends noir, cyberpunk and sports into something at once timeless and original. In an unsettlingly near-future New York where extreme climate change has made cybernetic…
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Freedom, Maine, population 722, is about as far away from Hollywood as you can get. So when Erin French, who runs the uber-popular Lost Kitchen there, had boldface names flocking to her virtual doorstep looking to buy the film rights to her…
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Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night’s highlights that lets you sleep — and lets us get paid to watch comedy. Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Breaking Conspiracy TheoriesSeth Meyers pointed to some…
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Love affairs, like many things, are subject to the laws of time and change. So I’m still a little blown away by the fact that I’m still blown away by a Japanese animation film on which I once bestowed six stars out of…
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Newsletter: FT WeekendGet a shot of weekend inspiration with the best in life, arts and culture. Delivered every Saturday morning. “It’s much harder than making an album,” says Dan Gillespie Sells, singer and songwriter in…
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This is the web version of our Watching newsletter, in which Margaret offers hyper-specific viewing recommendations like these every Monday and Friday. Read her latest picks below, and sign up for Watching here.Dear Watchers,The Emmys were…
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Irma Kalish, a television writer who tackled abortion, rape and other provocative issues in many of the biggest comedy hits of the 1960s and beyond as she helped usher women into the writer’s room, died on Sept. 3 in Woodland Hills, Calif.…
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