Rebecca Watson

Thursday, 26 October, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Friday, 8 May, 2020

ReviewFilm

On digital: Little Women / Onward

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women comes up a little short; Pixar’s latest sends elf brother on a quest with half a dad

Friday, 1 May, 2020

House & Home

The gift of isolation: my weekend at a writers’ retreat

Before the world went into lockdown, Rebecca Watson found herself in a very different kind of confinement

Thursday, 30 April, 2020

ReviewTelevision

BingeWatch — if you’re looking for distraction, Twin Peaks is a damn fine choice

David Lynch and Mark Frost’s funny, terrifying, transfixing series is perfect lockdown TV

Friday, 31 January, 2020

Books

How social media and tech transformed book design

More than ever in the digital era, we are judging books by their covers

Friday, 3 January, 2020

Screen time: a photography special

The agony and ecstasy of smashing your smartphone screen

At times when I’m anxious, I feel my phone like a weight. It’s a portal to infinite misreadings’

Friday, 3 January, 2020

ReviewFiction

Cleanness by Garth Greenwell — a precise rendering of intimacy

A finely wrought sequel revisits the Bulgaria-based expat American of ‘What Belongs to You’

Friday, 8 November, 2019

FT SeriesMeet the NextGen

The art of fiction in the age of social media

How can writers capture the new, slippery sense of self created by technology?

Rebecca Watson

Assistant Arts Editor

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