Donald Trump ©James Ferguson Lunch with the FT 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.

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As consumers have shopped, Brazil has prospered - and with it, its biggest non-state bank. Banco Itaú’s CEO talks about what happens when the shopping stops
– John Paul Rathbone
Márcia Valim ©Fifi Tong
Brazilians of all classes and ages are queuing up for plastic surgery procedures that were once the preserve of the wealthy elite
– Richard Lapper and Amy Stillman
Broken headstone at Satiniv cemetery in Ukraine ©ruthellengruber.com Feb 22, 2013

Wandering star

Even before working on his new BBC series ‘The Story of the Jews’, Simon Schama was a compulsive synagogue-hound

Lucy Kellaway admires the alpine view ©Sébastien Albert Lucy Kellaway from TRAVEL Feb 22, 2013

Switzerland without skis

Two decades after her last – disastrous – ski holiday, Lucy Kellaway returns to the Alps to visit a remote hamlet reinvented as a luxurious retreat for those who love mountains, but not falling over

An illustration of a stereo cabinet ©Toby Whitebread Feb 22, 2013

The Diary: Dave Eggers

Let’s make more stuff: memories of a beloved stereo cabinet fuel the American novelist’s handmade revolution

Anne Hathaway at this year’s Baftas ©PacificCoastNews.com STYLE Feb 22, 2013

The Oscars: Who decides who wears what?

The stylists behind this weekend’s Academy Awards

John Gray in London, 2009 ©Getty BOOKS Feb 22, 2013

The demolition man

Why are so many people drawn to the restless scepticism of philosopher John Gray? Julian Baggini reviews ‘The Silence of Animals’

St Nicholas Abbey ©Alamy TRAVEL Feb 22, 2013

Beyond Barbados

The Caribbean island is turning to its rich history in a bid to attract tourists seeking more than white sand and rum punch

Women working at the Cadbury factory in Bournville, UK, in 1954 ©Getty BOOKS Feb 22, 2013

Human capital

Two attempts to reimagine the relationship between business and society: ‘The Locust and the Bee’, by Geoff Mulgan, and ‘Firm Commitment’, by Colin Mayer

Detail from ‘Love is all around’ (2008) by Zwelethu Mthethwa and Louis Jansen van Vuuren ARTS Feb 22, 2013

The Art Market, by Georgina Adam

Christie’s raises its premiums, London gets a new art fair and a museum sell-off in Turkey sparks fury

Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Simón Bolívar Orchestra ©Reuters ARTS Feb 22, 2013

Gustavo Dudamel: not just another maestro?

Once the poster-boy of El Sistema, one of the world’s most sought-after conductors talks about his philosophy of life and music