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Rebecca Watson

Assistant Arts Editor

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  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Sally Rooney and the two sides of fame

    It’s not ingratitude to acknowledge the tension between acclaim and attention

    A hand picks up a copy of Intermezzo by Sally Rooney from a table full of the books
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The Euros give a glimpse of a purer patriotism

    Following the national team makes me aspire to an Englishness I’m comfortable with

  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Encounters with the Westminster honeytrapper

    It took her three minutes to say she was blocking me — but the story didn’t end there

    A person holding a smartphone
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    In the footsteps of . . .
    Ischia — in the footsteps of Elena Ferrante

    The Neapolitan novelist remains an enigma but echoes of ‘My Brilliant Friend’ linger on its heroine’s beloved island

    A view over a bridge leading over water to a harbour with hills behind
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Three cheers for the pub

    Traditional drinking holes are becoming scarcer as big chains move in, but the best of them connect you with a sense of history and community

    The cosy interior of a low-ceilinged pub at lunchtime, with sun filtering through the window by a table of seated people
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Life and Art from FT Weekend podcast17 min listen
    Culture Chat: Margaret Atwood, John Grisham and friends write a novel

    In an experiment whose proceeds will go to the Authors Guild of America, 36 authors including Margaret Atwood, John Grisham, Dave Eggers, and Celeste Ng, wrote a collaborative novel

  • Friday, 22 December, 2023
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Writer Francis Spufford: ‘I’m a sucker for a redemptive arc’

    The author on borrowing from life, the joy of fictional ‘gizmos’ — and why we need more stories

    An illustration of Francis Spufford in front of booklined shelves and wearing a hat with vertical stripes
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    ReviewFiction
    Paul Auster’s Baumgartner — in the shadow of death

    This autumnal work about a professor haunted by glimpses of his late wife is a riddling but deeply felt meditation on grief

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    The Oscars 2023: all you need to know
    Miriam Toews on her bestseller Women Talking becoming an Oscar contender

    The author’s account of the aftermath of sexual abuses in a Mennonite community has been nominated for Best Picture

    Miriam Toews outside her home in Toronto
  • Saturday, 21 January, 2023
    Person in the News
    Hanif Kureishi, a writer undaunted

    The bestselling novelist has gained a new audience through his tweets from hospital

    Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News Hanif Kureishi
  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    George Saunders: ‘It’s wonderful how writing never abandons you’

    The ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ author on the life lessons of Tolstoy — and how ‘Jaws’ made him a writer

  • Friday, 23 September, 2022
    ObituaryHilary Mantel
    Hilary Mantel, writer, 1952-2022

    A brilliant novelist and critic who understood her craft

    A portrait of Hilary Mantel, who was a gracious, wise writer, but a cheeky one too. She saw through authority, whether it was the Catholic church, the monarchy or Tory party
  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    InterviewVisual Arts
    Artists Jane and Louise Wilson on the duality of experience

    The Turner-nominated twin sisters’ latest show reflects dynamic contrasts long evident in their film and photographic work

    Two adult women in a studio standing next to each other. Behind them are walls and a table with their artworks
  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Rebecca Watson’s fantasy dinner party: a boozy affair at Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead

    ​​The novelist invites Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin, while Seinfeld’s Kramer makes a splash

    From left: Virginia Woolf, James Baldwin, Kramer, Francis Bacon, Patricia Highsmith and Rebecca Watson
  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    FT MagazineTheatre
    The particular power of female alliances

    ‘There’s nothing extraordinary about women being creative. It’s the creativity, the work, that’s extraordinary’

  • Saturday, 4 September, 2021
    FT Magazine
    Author Maggie Nelson on sex, climate and freedom

    For the writer, getting sober was liberating — and sparked her interest in the meanings of freedom

    Maggie Nelson
  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    ReviewFiction
    Checkout 19 — writing that pursues the elusive essence of what it is to live

    Claire-Louise Bennett’s debut novel uses shifting viewpoints and identities to tease the certainties of mind and memory

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    The FT guide to compassion: at home, work and play
    Alone together: friendship in a pandemic

    Our relationships have been tested by Covid-19. But they have taken on new forms and sustained us in new ways

  • Thursday, 31 December, 2020
    ReviewFiction
    little scratch by Rebecca Watson — horror and humour

    A hidden trauma is at the heart of this playful, knowing debut

  • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
    FT SeriesWomen of 2020
    Hilary Mantel: ‘I think of writing as the arena of peril’

    The author of the Wolf Hall trilogy on what’s next, doctors and why writing is like fighting

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Art for the soul: where culture, nature and wellbeing meet
    A new sculpture park in Miami hopes to make waves

    The seven-mile project, due in December 2021, will be informed by researchers and marine biologists

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    InterviewBooks
    Mary Gaitskill on disorderly love in a disorderly world

    The author talks about the complicated relationships between her characters and the vulnerability of loss

    Mary Gaitskill
  • Saturday, 15 August, 2020
    Life & Arts
    I made fun of office life — and then it disappeared

    When I wrote my debut novel, I had no idea that the culture it satirised would soon feel like a fossil

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Residential
    Fantasy homes: a modernist masterpiece made for working and entertaining

    This London house dominates the 2013 film ‘Exhibition’. Freed from its sullen fictional inhabitants, it is a writer’s utopia

    Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick in 'Exhibition' (2013) Sourced IMDB
  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    ReviewFilm
    On digital: True History of the Kelly Gang / The Invisible Man

    A bloody tale about an 1870s Australian gang leader Ned Kelly; a woman is being pursued and tormented by her evil-entrepreneur ex

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