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Originally Posted by Eric
Incidentally, I've been buying print copies of the FT (the one printed in Frankfurt) quite a lot recently, for obvious reasons. As recently as yesterday, in fact, when the idea of Russia lending Iceland money made NATO worried about influence. (Iceland is a NATO member.) The FT's coverage of the non-fictional aspects of politics and news from foreign countries is good. I just don't think that they've got the strongest coverage of fiction, poetry, etc., although I heard that they did have a ballet correspodent, and cover the arts quite well at weekends.
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Well, the coverage of the unwinding of various financial fictions has been pretty good.
But that they (or the WSJ this side of the pond) give it any serious attention at all is a plus. (
The Economist seems to have scaled back its consideration of fiction of late.)
I find fiction indispensible to forming a coherent view of the world (novels in particular, since they're such catch-alls). Though my reading of the above-mentioned publications indicates the world is pretty incoherent these days, especially the financial side of it, which distracts me from here a bit since it's my industry, or was (and will be again, I hope).