We are treated to nearly three hours of their company, telling each other little white lies as they interact, each seeming unable to express or fully articulate their feelings or grief. These ...

Back in 1927, in his Aspects of the Novel lectures, E.M. Forster famously urged writers to develop "round" characters rather than "flat" ones. Along with a handful of like-minded novelists since ...

The Beatles famously sang that the long and winding road leads to your door. Long-windedness in a job interview, unfortunately, does the opposite. Why work so hard to get an interview but then ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. From Mr Ian Walker. Sir, Lord Justice Leveson is clearly no Voltaire, who apologised to his friend that ...

President Barack Obama's campaign on Monday tried to tamp down expectations for his debate performance against Mitt Romney, and acknowledged that the former law professor needs to learn to shorten ...