Fred Studemann
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FT lit ed (“workaholic” - Private Eye)
European modernism reaches new heights …. Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
on.ft.com/4mVpHPC Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
on.ft.com/4mVpHPC Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
[FREE TO READ] Dystopian novelist recognised for his ‘compelling and visionary oeuvre’ in the central European tradition of Franz Kafka
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October 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
European modernism reaches new heights …. Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
on.ft.com/4mVpHPC Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
on.ft.com/4mVpHPC Hungary’s László Krasznahorkai wins Nobel literature prize
From terrorism to Tennyson - and the journey of a lone wolf across Europe and more …. a broad inspiring range of subjects on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize. Our FT report (with links on to our reviews)
on.ft.com/4o0J8HV
on.ft.com/4o0J8HV
Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2025 shortlist — from terrorism to Tennyson
[FREE TO READ] Judges celebrate the breadth of a list characterised by ‘candour and courage’
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October 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
From terrorism to Tennyson - and the journey of a lone wolf across Europe and more …. a broad inspiring range of subjects on the shortlist for this year’s Baillie Gifford Prize. Our FT report (with links on to our reviews)
on.ft.com/4o0J8HV
on.ft.com/4o0J8HV
The Booker shortlist has landed!
on.ft.com/3ICMbqu Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
on.ft.com/3ICMbqu Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
[FREE TO READ] The 2025 award is notable for shortlisting proven names and for the absence of debut fiction or small independent publishers
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September 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Booker shortlist has landed!
on.ft.com/3ICMbqu Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
on.ft.com/3ICMbqu Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
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Odyssey without end — why the classics are as relevant as ever https://on.ft.com/3TB5qTq
Odyssey without end — why the classics are as relevant as ever
Ancient Greek and Roman stories in all their modern retellings and Hollywood adaptations remain powerful guides to our political systems and personal lives
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July 12, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Odyssey without end — why the classics are as relevant as ever https://on.ft.com/3TB5qTq
Time to consider the nuclear option? Jonathan Ford assesses the prospects for atomic power in an age of net zero. This week’s FT Weekend Books essay 👇
on.ft.com/4klJfeQ The perils and promise of our new nuclear age
on.ft.com/4klJfeQ The perils and promise of our new nuclear age
The perils and promise of our new nuclear age
[FREE TO READ] As net zero goals revive the push for atomic power, could it light the way or lead to disaster? Three timely books explore the possibilities
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July 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Time to consider the nuclear option? Jonathan Ford assesses the prospects for atomic power in an age of net zero. This week’s FT Weekend Books essay 👇
on.ft.com/4klJfeQ The perils and promise of our new nuclear age
on.ft.com/4klJfeQ The perils and promise of our new nuclear age
And we’re off! Our Summer Books - the best reads of the year so far, as chosen by FT critics and specialists from economics and poetry to food & drink; tech and fiction to thrillers and history and much more. Happy reading!
Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far on.ft.com/4n41ZCa
Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far on.ft.com/4n41ZCa
Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far
From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far
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June 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And we’re off! Our Summer Books - the best reads of the year so far, as chosen by FT critics and specialists from economics and poetry to food & drink; tech and fiction to thrillers and history and much more. Happy reading!
Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far on.ft.com/4n41ZCa
Summer books 2025: the best titles of the year so far on.ft.com/4n41ZCa
Carlo Gebler recalling his Stakhanovite mother, Edna O’Brien, her “Colette-esque responsiveness” and experimenting with LSD - great way to kick off the day at the #dbf2025 in Dalkey at - where else - Finnegans
June 15, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Carlo Gebler recalling his Stakhanovite mother, Edna O’Brien, her “Colette-esque responsiveness” and experimenting with LSD - great way to kick off the day at the #dbf2025 in Dalkey at - where else - Finnegans
International Booker Prize 2025 - and the winners are …
May 20, 2025 at 10:56 PM
International Booker Prize 2025 - and the winners are …
“I hate it when people compare things to Kafka. I’ve written dramas about Kafka - but this really is Kafka!”
Daniel Kehlmann on border troubles and other parallels between Trump’s America and his novel, The Director
on.ft.com/4klqGrt Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’
Daniel Kehlmann on border troubles and other parallels between Trump’s America and his novel, The Director
on.ft.com/4klqGrt Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’
Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’
[FREE TO READ] The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era filmmaker GW Pabst. It couldn’t be more timely
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May 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
“I hate it when people compare things to Kafka. I’ve written dramas about Kafka - but this really is Kafka!”
Daniel Kehlmann on border troubles and other parallels between Trump’s America and his novel, The Director
on.ft.com/4klqGrt Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’
Daniel Kehlmann on border troubles and other parallels between Trump’s America and his novel, The Director
on.ft.com/4klqGrt Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’
How Nvidia became the driving force behind the AI revolution on.ft.com/3ElNdFr - brilliant analysis and context from the FT’s own @tim.fo
How Nvidia became the driving force behind the AI revolution
[FREE TO READ] Two books chart the rise of the chipmaker via its ‘benevolent dictator’ Jensen Huang and an early gamble on deep learning
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April 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
How Nvidia became the driving force behind the AI revolution on.ft.com/3ElNdFr - brilliant analysis and context from the FT’s own @tim.fo
Trying to understand just what is going on in all things trade and tariffs? Some of the FT’s finest minds share their tips on some of the best books to read
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars on.ft.com/4cvrW8F
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars on.ft.com/4cvrW8F
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars
[FREE TO READ] As tariffs escalate, FT specialists recommend titles that explain the forces and ideas shaping trade policy in recent decades, including President Trump’s trade war
on.ft.com
April 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Trying to understand just what is going on in all things trade and tariffs? Some of the FT’s finest minds share their tips on some of the best books to read
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars on.ft.com/4cvrW8F
Five books to boost your understanding of tariffs and trade wars on.ft.com/4cvrW8F
Another Beatles book? (Eye-roll.) Honestly, do we need it? Yes we do, when it’s as revelatory as Ian Leslie’s ‘John & Paul’ - Simon Schama on a wonderful Beatles love story on.ft.com/41JDC2O
Simon Schama on John & Paul — a wonderful Beatles love story
[FREE TO READ] Thought there was nothing more to know about Lennon and McCartney? Ian Leslie’s fine book reanimates the power and joy of their creative partnership
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March 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Another Beatles book? (Eye-roll.) Honestly, do we need it? Yes we do, when it’s as revelatory as Ian Leslie’s ‘John & Paul’ - Simon Schama on a wonderful Beatles love story on.ft.com/41JDC2O
Top dollar: how the greenback has underpinned US global economic hegemony. But how much longer? Max Harris in top form in this week’s FT Books essay.
How America weaponised the world’s economy on.ft.com/4kUJFtY
How America weaponised the world’s economy
[FREE TO READ] Two books chart how Washington has come to depend on both its economic might and the dollar’s dominance in tackling rogue states and geopolitical rivals
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March 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Top dollar: how the greenback has underpinned US global economic hegemony. But how much longer? Max Harris in top form in this week’s FT Books essay.
How America weaponised the world’s economy on.ft.com/4kUJFtY
Some real gems here - from @johnthornhill.bsky.social on Alex Karp’s vision of a better tech future and Lionel Shriver’s celebration of Curtis Sittenfeld’s short story collection, the realities of our manufactured world and lots, lots more. Read on
February 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Some real gems here - from @johnthornhill.bsky.social on Alex Karp’s vision of a better tech future and Lionel Shriver’s celebration of Curtis Sittenfeld’s short story collection, the realities of our manufactured world and lots, lots more. Read on
While you wait for the results to come in, some recommendations of what to read on Germany today
Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election on.ft.com/4gWs5Tc
Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election on.ft.com/4gWs5Tc
Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election
[FREE TO READ] As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading
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February 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
While you wait for the results to come in, some recommendations of what to read on Germany today
Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election on.ft.com/4gWs5Tc
Nation at a crossroads: a reading guide to the 2025 German election on.ft.com/4gWs5Tc
Found this piece I wrote some years back, around the time of another ‘eventful’ Munich Security Conference … Sadly, seems to have acquired new relevance.
on.ft.com/4k6RBbh
on.ft.com/4k6RBbh
Thinking the unthinkable on Germany going nuclear
[FREE TO READ] The security debate is changing with calls for country to pull its weight militarily
on.ft.com
February 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Found this piece I wrote some years back, around the time of another ‘eventful’ Munich Security Conference … Sadly, seems to have acquired new relevance.
on.ft.com/4k6RBbh
on.ft.com/4k6RBbh
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Hurray -
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journalists now can use their own domain. So I am now @olafstorbeck.ft.com here in an attempt to prevent impersonation. (deleted original post with typo in my domain)
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journalists now can use their own domain. So I am now @olafstorbeck.ft.com here in an attempt to prevent impersonation. (deleted original post with typo in my domain)
January 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hurray -
@financialtimes.com
journalists now can use their own domain. So I am now @olafstorbeck.ft.com here in an attempt to prevent impersonation. (deleted original post with typo in my domain)
@financialtimes.com
journalists now can use their own domain. So I am now @olafstorbeck.ft.com here in an attempt to prevent impersonation. (deleted original post with typo in my domain)
What to read to understand the crisis in Syria? A selection of recommendations from FT specialists 👇
on.ft.com/4fa33iE
on.ft.com/4fa33iE
What to read on Syria
[FREE TO READ] Twelve books that shed light on the conflict and its place in the wider power struggles across the Middle East
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December 10, 2024 at 9:47 AM
What to read to understand the crisis in Syria? A selection of recommendations from FT specialists 👇
on.ft.com/4fa33iE
on.ft.com/4fa33iE
Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
The FT’s guide to the Books of the Year
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
Ft.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Next up in our glorious FT annual round-up of the best books of the year: Martin Wolf shares his selection of must-reads from the world of economics. Lots of other goodies - from tech to crime - with more to come. And then all brought together print on Saturday. Dive in!
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
Ft.com/booksoftheyear2024
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Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...
November 13, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Hi there - a first post on this platform. Do please repost this message just in case anyone should want to find me here -- thank you...
And a big welcome to two wonderful newcomers /ex-Xers @katharinabberg.bsky.social and @jamiebulloch.bsky.social - bright stars in the literary firmament - Willkommen!
November 14, 2024 at 9:58 PM
And a big welcome to two wonderful newcomers /ex-Xers @katharinabberg.bsky.social and @jamiebulloch.bsky.social - bright stars in the literary firmament - Willkommen!
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Help! The Superyachts! They are dying! By the FT's brilliant investigative correspondent Miles Johnson on.ft.com/46h4Q2O
Help! The Superyachts! They are dying! By the FT's brilliant investigative correspondent Miles Johnson on.ft.com/46h4Q2O
What happened to Russia’s seized superyachts?
[FREE TO READ] Swift action to impound palatial boats became a symbol of western resolve after the invasion of Ukraine. Now the costs are mounting for owners and governments alike
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July 20, 2024 at 7:45 AM
I'm on holiday so as a little treat the first 300 clicks on this are free:
Help! The Superyachts! They are dying! By the FT's brilliant investigative correspondent Miles Johnson on.ft.com/46h4Q2O
Help! The Superyachts! They are dying! By the FT's brilliant investigative correspondent Miles Johnson on.ft.com/46h4Q2O
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Learnt a lot from this @jderbyshire.bsky.social column. I didn't realise that the difference between the two nationalist rightwing groups in the European parliament on Russia was quite so stark!
Faultlines divide parties on Europe’s nationalist right
Groups outside the conservative mainstream may prosper in the EU’s June elections, but they disagree on key policy issues
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February 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Learnt a lot from this @jderbyshire.bsky.social column. I didn't realise that the difference between the two nationalist rightwing groups in the European parliament on Russia was quite so stark!
@dickiebielenberg.bsky.social welcome to one half of the genius pair behind the brilliant Maremma restaurant!
January 13, 2024 at 1:01 PM
@dickiebielenberg.bsky.social welcome to one half of the genius pair behind the brilliant Maremma restaurant!
November 18, 2023 at 12:52 PM