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Lucian Grainge

©James Ferguson

With the £1.2bn takeover of EMI, a 52-year-old Londoner has emerged as ‘the music industry’s most powerful man’

©James Ferguson Mar 1, 2013

Boris Akunin

Russia’s dissident detective novelist talks about oligarchs, angering the Kremlin and why even peaceful revolution could lead to Russia’s collapse

©James Ferguson Feb 23, 2013

Donald Trump

Hype seems hard-wired into the billionaire property developer who has also built one of the world’s most recognisable brands.

©Sarah Maycock 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

Illustration by Luke Waller of Chris Hughes

©Luke Waller Feb 9, 2013

Facebook follow-up

After co-founding Facebook, Chris Hughes directed Barack Obama’s digital campaign for president. So why has he switched to old media?

©James Ferguson Feb 1, 2013

David Fincher

The Hollywood director, who filmed one of cinema’s most disturbing finales and has just remade a British drama for Netflix, talks about salads and serial killers

©James Ferguson Jan 25, 2013

Robert B Silvers

As the New York Review of Books celebrates its 50th anniversary, its editor for all those years explains why a world without long, serious reviews is ‘unthinkable’

©James Ferguson Jan 18, 2013

Sydney Kentridge

The 90-year-old barrister has represented three Nobel Prize winners, including Nelson Mandela. He talks about apartheid, ‘judge-itis’ and not going on for ever

©Seb Jarnot From STYLE Jan 11, 2013

Christopher Bailey

Burberry’s chief creative officer tells Vanessa Friedman about the ‘terrible’ experience that helped define his approach to the fashion brand

©James Ferguson Jan 4, 2013

Robert Caro

The US biographer who has spent three decades – so far – on his acclaimed study of Lyndon B Johnson talks to Sarah Gordon

Dec 28, 2012

Shane Smith

Over several bottles of rosé, the party animal turned media mogul talks about Somali pirates and why hipsters are interested in news

Dec 21, 2012

Tyler Cowen

The ‘infovore’ and author of ‘An Economist Gets Lunch’ explains his sure-fire way of hunting down cheap, tasty food

Dec 14, 2012

Ratan Tata

Over chai in Mumbai, the outgoing head of India’s biggest conglomerate talks about how his job became a ‘personal issue’

Dec 7, 2012

Magnus Carlsen

The 22-year-old Norwegian is set to become the highest-rated chess player of all time. Martin Sandbu meets him in a Lebanese restaurant in London

Nov 30, 2012

Maxim Vengerov

On the eve of a sell-out concert in London, the violinist dines on grouse and discusses reincarnation and Rostropovich

Nov 21, 2012

David Linley

The Queen’s nephew and Christie’s chairman talks about privilege, polka dots and his parents’ ‘extraordinary circle of friends’

Nov 9, 2012

Conrad Black

Over lamb cutlets and a £75 bottle of wine, the disgraced financier and press baron dismisses his conviction for fraud

Nov 2, 2012

Sebastian Coe

The former Olympics organising committee chairman on sport, politics and why Sepp Blatter is ‘actually quite thoughtful’

Oct 27, 2012

Brad Grey

‘It’s really not difficult’: the Paramount studio boss tells Matthew Garrahan about Tony Soprano, Tom Cruise and the exercise of power in Hollywood

Oct 19, 2012

Norman Davies

The acclaimed European historian talks to the FT’s Europe editor about war, communism and the break-up of the UK

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