Illustration by Sarah Maycock of James Franco ©Sarah Maycock Lunch with the FT Feb 15, 2013

James Franco

Few A-listers divide opinion as much as the actor/writer/ scholar and artist. Peter Aspden catches him in Berlin to hear why being a movie star isn’t enough

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE

Shane Todd on a dragon boat in Singapore during an outing with friends and colleagues in 2011
Suicide - or something more sinister? The troubling case of American electronics engineer Shane Todd
– by Raymond Bonner and Christine Spolar
DJ John mixes Haitian music with R&B ©Paolo Woods
A whopping 97 per cent of Haitians own a radio – and everyone from priests to voodoo practitioners gets to go on-air
– words by James Vincent, photos by Paolo Woods
Illustration by Oliver Polanski of a man working on his laptop ©Oliver Polanski Feb 15, 2013

Wisdom on the web

What I’ve learnt from reading lots of the internet every day. By Robert Cottrell, editor of the Browser

Looks from the Autumn/Winter 2013 collections from New York Fashion Week: (from left) Reed Krakoff, Carolina Herrera and Vera Wang ©Catwalking Vanessa Friedman from STYLE Feb 15, 2013

New York Fashion Week 2013

A glimpse at the key catwalk trends for next autumn/winter

Leaders join hands at the 2012 ASEAN summit in Cambodia ©Camera Press Philip Stephens from BOOKS Feb 15, 2013

Shifting global power

The FT chief political commentator’s review of ‘The Great Convergence’, ‘The End of Power’ and ‘Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century’

Jomolhari base camp TRAVEL Feb 15, 2013

Trekking in Bhutan

Tom Robbins hikes through the untouched Himalayan kingdom and is transported to an era when people still believed in mermaids

‘The Humiliation of Li Fanwu’ (1966) by Li Zhensheng ARTS Feb 15, 2013

‘Photography and China’

A new book by Claire Roberts inspires Francis Hodgson to reappraise one of the country’s most vibrant forms of contemporary art

An illustration of a horse ©James Ferguson Feb 15, 2013

The Diary: James Lasdun

The British author discovers a distant ancestor who bought the Jockey Club in retaliation and turned it into his private stables

©Adam Hancher BOOKS Feb 15, 2013

‘Harvest’ by Jim Crace

Crace’s new novel depicts a rural community looking into the abyss. Review by AN Wilson

A fish stall at Ballarò market ©Corbis TRAVEL Feb 15, 2013

A taste of Sicily

In a grand Palermo mansion, Brian Viner takes lessons in cookery (and high society) from a local duchess

Detail from Murillo's ‘A Young Man with a Basket of Fruit (Personification of Summer)’ ©Scottish National Gallery ARTS Feb 15, 2013

Murillo at Dulwich

Griselda Murray Brown on the 17th-century Spanish artist’s religious paintings on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London