Life and Art from FT Weekend

Romantic comedies, with novelist Curtis Sittenfeld

What advice would you give your older self?

Her parents fled Iran. Her art tells their story

How to have a good death

Succession's Arian Moayed on how to play a good bad guy

Actor Arian Moayed explores the complexities of portraying multifaceted characters, specifically focusing on his roles as Stewie in Succession and Torvald in A Doll's House. By rejecting the binary of "good" or "bad" characters, he emphasizes the importance of humanizing figures often perceived as villains or oppressor...

Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks on making art about Covid

Introducing Behind the Money: Night School

The secret gamblers using AI to hack horse racing

We love tequila. It’s causing problems

Best of: How Shakespeare gave actor Michael Patrick Thornton his life back

The art of the celebrity interview, with Sam Fragoso

Ben Okri on poetry and politics. Plus: graffiti legend 10 Foot

Elif Batuman rethinks Russian literature

Best of: Chef Mashama Bailey on reclaiming African-American food

Ukraine one year on, with filmmaker Nadia Parfan

Artist Nick Cave on police violence and history repeating

Why fine dining isn’t fine

‘Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow’ author Gabrielle Zevin

Oscar-nominated directors: ‘Everything Everywhere’ and ‘Triangle of Sadness’

Surviving US healthcare. Plus: Prince Harry’s 'Spare'