Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Backstroke is, of course, the ingenious art of propelling yourself forwards by moving backwards.

A star rating of 4 out of 5. You won’t be surprised to learn that Backstroke is an extremely sad play. What you may be surprised to learn is that it’s funny, too. Friday Night Dinner's Tamsin ...

But Mackmin doesn’t do enough to link images. Backstroke wants to map how the tendrils of Beth’s failure as a mother dig their fingers across generations. But Bo’s failure as a mother is not ...