(Editor’s Note: Last weekend, we introduced a new feature called Weekend Reading, a look at what newspapers are featuring in their Sunday and weekend editions. Some of you were confused at first, since the first newspaper up was the Post, which many of you read on Sundays anyway, so we’ll try to mix it up a bit more today. Like we said before, some people in D.C. make their weekend reading into a competitive sport. Here’s our attempt to help you plot your strategy.)

— In The Financial Times’ Weekend edition, we start with the four-page analysis of the FT’s Global 500 listings. General Electric, ExxonMobil, Microsoft, Citigroup and BP top the list. But Apple, moving from “nowhere to 159th,” is to us the most interesting part of the rankings package.

In a tech industry that is mired in overcapacity, bereft of grand new ideas and beset by rampant comoditisation, [Steve] Jobs also represents something bigger: the possibility that there are new ways to prosper that are tied to something other than the pure engineering breakthroughs of the past.

Elsewhere, Paige Williams dines at Peter Lugar Steakhouse with Philip Gourevitch, the new editor of The Paris Review … Edwin Heathcote discusses how libraries (remember them?) are experiencing a renaissance … Marrakech is “losing its grubby, hippy image” …

And our favorite, the globetrotting superstar Tyler Brûlé finds himself on — gasp — a Los Angeles city bus and had an epiphany being amongst the commoners. It “felt like the most social scene” in LA. Tyler, please come to D.C., and we’ll put you on the 42 to broaden your bus education.