When the show was over I went back to my room, sat down on the edge of the bed and began to cry. This was March 15. I had just come from covering the opening of I Can’t Make You Those Mittens Because ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Contemplative music is usually understood as calming and restrained, a hushed acoustic backdrop for thinking.

As Christmas approaches, young eyes will be focused on the sky searching for a glimpse of Santa and his reindeer—or are they caribou? The differences between the two are mostly taxonomic—both are ...