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...Freedom to Think: The Long Struggle to Liberate Our Mindsby Susie Alegre, Atlantic Books £20/$29.95 George Orwell warned us about a future dystopia where “thought crimes” would be punished....
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 Tech companies are busily building an alternative virtual reality in the metaverse....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor The most memorable read for me this year was a re-read: Stephen J Pyne’s The Ice: A Journey to Antarctica (1986), a stupendous synthesis of natural and cultural history...
...Susie Boyt Novelist and FT contributor Negative Capability, Michele Roberts’ memoir of a novelist’s villainous year, was bracing and galvanising....
...“In Paris, some agencies have removed every single listing,” says Susie Hollands, chief executive of property company Vingt Paris....
...“Banner for Willie J.”, by the Chicago-born Charles White, is an oil portrait of the artist’s cousin, an innocent bystander killed during a robbery at a bar....
...Fashion Climbing: A New York Life, by Bill Cunningham, Vintage RRP£16.99, 256 pages Susie Boyt is the author of ‘Love & Fame’ (Virago) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...All the Beautiful Girls , by Elizabeth J Church, 4th Estate, RRP£12.99, 320 pages ‘Love & Fame’ by Susie Boyt is published by Virago Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...The new main theatre will be named after Susie Sainsbury, deputy chair of the academy’s governing body, following a donation by the Sainsbury family’s charity....
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...To Susie Lau, author of the fashion blog Style Bubble, this growth was inevitable....
...The restaurant, situated close to London’s West End theatres, becomes one of the capital’s most famous. 1997-98 The 100-year-old seafood restaurant J Sheekey is their next purchase....
...Now in his sixties, exactly between García Márquez and the new Vásquez generation, Tomás González spent many years living in the US....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...No fingerprints in this column, of course, but the bank wondered whether the alphabet could start with J . . . . . . harriet.agnew@ft.com...
...Broomsticks, box files and J-cloths – I was armed for action, primed for achievement. The attic was quaking with fear at my imminent ambush....
...“It stops new shoes from rubbing,” says Susie Lau....
...A decade ago, Susie Crippen, a Los Angeles-based fashion stylist and occasional cabaret singer, thought her career was dead....
...The factory was run by the Kader Industrial Toy Company, which made toys that were “distributed and sold by some of the most prominent names in corporate America, including Toys “R” Us, J. C....
...Panto League indicate that last season’s champion “All the Single Ladies” has been relegated, and the strongest musical contender for mandatory inclusion in this year’s pantomimes is “Price Tag” by Jessie J....
...“It was when Sarah Jessica Parker, Katy Perry and Cheryl Cole were seen and photographed in J Brand coloured denim,” he says....
...Something about J B Priestley’s 1938 play seems conducive to de luxe comedy casting....
...Acquisitions continued of famous names such as Johnson Brothers, Coalport, Midwinter, J&G Meakin, Mason’s Ironstone and Precision Studios....
...Irving Penn: Small Trades By Virginia A Heckert and Anne Lacoste J Paul Getty Museum, £34.99 A magnificent memorial tribute to the American photographer who died last month....
...Nor, impressive as they are in themselves, do the ambient soundscapes by J. Peter Schwalm and Nell Catchpole evoke anything in particular....
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