Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Think of what we lost as a result of Brahms’s self-critical demand for perfection. We have a better idea ...

Johannes Brahms’s father was an impecunious double-bass player, eventually good enough for the Hamburg Philharmonic. At the age of six he was discovered to have perfect pitch and a natural talent for ...

At 7:38 a.m. Monday, Pablo Viveros-Gonzalez was released from the Jackson County Jail in Brownstown to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials for deportation, police report. On March 29 ...