My memories of American Girl literature are strong. The chapter books painted backstories for my favorite dolls, giving me a taste for historical fiction and nonfiction that I still have today, and ...

A lapsed painter wonders where it all went wrong in the latest novel from the Man Booker winner Novels with plots that are slight or familiar-seeming tend to compensate by pumping up the idiosyncrasy ...

The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out with in Nirvana’s seminal ’90s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month. With ...

The guitar that Kurt Cobain played in Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is set to go to auction — and, hello, hello, hello, early estimates are not low. The iconic blue guitar from the ...

The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out within Nirvana’s seminal 90s Smells Like Teen Spirit music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month. With Smells ...

Oliver Otway Orme, the narrator of John Banville’s 16th novel, is a painter who has ceased to paint. “Ha! What I wrote down first, instead of painter, was painster,” he tells us, thereby revealing ...

The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out with in Nirvana’s seminal '90s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month. Subscribe ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The weather gods were good to me while I was reading John Banville’s stirring new novel, The Blue Guitar. The August ...

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