These are the beautiful animals soon to be on our screens as Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth returns this month. A decade after the first Planet Earth series was filmed, Sir Attenborough, widely ...

In a speech about the Arab spring at the Edinburgh world writers’ conference in 2012, the Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif questioned the place of the novel in the white heat of political turmoil.

Poaching is a huge problem in parts of Asia and Africa, with wild animals being slaughtered for their hides and tusks. Animals who were once commonplace are increasingly threatened with extinction. We ...

It’s another summer on the Greek island of Hydra, another summer among the rich – specifically, the Codrington and Haldane families. Jimmie Codrington is a British airline owner and art dealer who ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Lawrence Osborne writes thrillers about affluent western Europeans who accidentally encounter the rest of the ...

In today’s busy, colourful, and fast-moving world, some things stand out by being calm and simple. White animals are one of them. On social media, wildlife videos, and nature pages, these animals with ...

At the end of last year two of the most recognisable animals on Earth left these shores for a journey to the other side of the world that would bring to an end more than 80 years of a UK zoo being ...

An artist uses shells of different shapes and sizes to create stunning beach artwork. Jeweller and designer Anna Chan, who is based in New York, visited Robert Moses State Park and began creating sand ...

Like Christopher Bollen’s Patmos-set Highsmithian thriller The Destroyers, which was published last month, Lawrence Osborne’s fine new novel plunges us into the world of wealthy American and British ...