We emerged with posher accents and a belief we would automatically out-perform our parents financially (which never quite ...

None of the latter foods were present in Indira’s fridge. Such was life in Cuba for a working-class family. Here were three employed adults, one of whom, as a trilingual translator, had a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Claire Baglin’s assured debut novel presents an affecting portrait of an ordinary, working-class French ...

Hey, that has a ring to it. I’m a donkey guy myself. Can’t help it; I come from a “working class” family, although I’ve never been that nuts about working. I think my father, a union man ...