Kurt Cobain in Rome, November 1989
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Lessons from the death of Kurt Cobain

The Nirvana frontman’s suicide 20 years ago has much to teach us about America’s way of failure

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Illustration by James Ferguson of Edmund de Waal
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Edmund de Waal

The ceramicist and best-selling author of ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’ shares a seaside picnic with Jackie Wullschlager

The Palio in Ferrara

The Palio of Ferrara

The Italian city is home to a historic racing event and renaissance treasures that cry out for a wider audience

boy reading book
©Peter Marlow/Magnum

The language instinct

Henry Mance on why young Britons are reading less than they used to – and what can be done about it

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Fashion does fun

What happens when the fashion world takes a risk and plays for laughs on the catwalk

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‘Titian and the Golden Age’

The 16th-century painter and other Venetian masters, on show at Edinburgh’s Scottish National Gallery

Caroline Daniel
©Rosie Hallam

The Diary: Caroline Daniel

The editor of FT Weekend looks back at highlights of the FT Weekend Literary Festival in Oxford

‘Monday Morning, Mother of Two, 2010’, at Edwynn Houk Gallery until May 3
©Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

‘Thrive’ by Arianna Huffington

The case for women ignoring some received notions of corporate success. Review by Sarah Gordon

Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in ‘Roman Holiday’ (1953); Richard Gere in ‘American Gigolo’ (1980)
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Italian fashion at London’s V&A

The museum’s new exhibition showcases the rise of effortless cool and sensuality in menswear

Crochet rug designed by Moonbasket

Cape Town: World Design Capital

The contemporary appeal of a young design sector in a continent of revered ancient crafts

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