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...Berry Bros & Rudd’s Burgundy buyer Adam Bruntlett points out that, “Mâconnais wines generally are less popular at en primeur time.”...
...The trickery and treachery of rival siblings is epitomised in the stories of Adam’s sons Cain and Abel, of Jacob’s double deception of his older twin Esau, and then of Jacob’s sons against his youngest,...
...The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz, Farrar Straus & Giroux $32/Apollo £25, 464 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café and subscribe to our podcast...
...The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (Bloomsbury/Farrar Straus & Giroux)A biography of the French West Indian psychiatrist and political philosopher whose work shaped...
...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...Mona by Pola Oloixarac, translated by Adam Morris, Serpent’s Tail £12.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $28, 192 pages...
...The Topeka School , by Ben Lerner, Granta, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27 Adam, narrator of Lerner’s 2011 novel Leaving the Atocha Station , returns here in his youth as an unnervingly sharp...
...The Topeka School , by Ben Lerner, Granta, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Some readers might find this playfulness more rewarding than the plot around an android called Adam, but in both realms McEwan maintains his status as a master of fiction....
...The Flame , by Leonard Cohen, Canongate, RRP£20/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$28 Cohen was a poet before he was a musician, and with this posthumous collection his career completes its circle....
...Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment , by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26/Profile, RRP£16.99, 240 pages The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity , by Kwame...
...Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land, by Robert Crawford, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$35 Crawford’s exhaustive biography of TS Eliot’s early years anatomises the poet’s early...
...Pieces from writers including Zadie Smith, Adam Gopnik and David Adjaye take readers from the Maidan-e-Pompa in Kabul to the Place des Vosges in Paris....
...Adam Feinstein is author of ‘Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life’ (Bloomsbury) Notes on the Death of Culture, by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by John King, Faber, RRP£20 / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$23...
...As Adam Gopnik has observed in the New Yorker, the “daylong oscillation between fucking and finance” shown in Les Particules seemed ridiculously exaggerated until the Strauss-Kahn scandal broke....
...… In the Wolf’s Mouth, by Adam Foulds, Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 Foulds tells the story of an English field security officer and an Italian-American infantryman in the...
...… Bête, by Adam Roberts, Gollancz, RRP£18.99 A mordant, satirical thought-piece in which animals are fitted with artificial intelligence chips, enabling them to speak....
...John le Carré: The Biography, by Adam Sisman, Bloomsbury, RRP£25/Harper, RRP$28.99 While Sisman may not make the literary case for le Carré’s novels as cogently as some might wish, he offers insights into...
...Its cover, showing a submerged Manhattan, was created in March 2012, according to a spokesman for the book’s publishers, Farrar, Straus and Giroux – seven months before superstorm Sandy swamped the city....
...Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam Grant, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£20/Viking, RRP$27.95 The assumption that winner takes all is brilliantly dismantled by Grant, who uses his and...
...Thirlwell in anything by Adam Thirlwell....
...Stein and his younger sister Anna were scholarship kids who grew up in the Adams Morgan part of Washington when it was much less salubrious than it is now, thanks to the lingering menace of the city’s race...
...Mr Giroux highlights the opportunities for diving and water sports off the Madagascan coast....
...Foam-mouthed politicians, uncertain wars, France-hating, US courtship of Britain: as Adams' life makes clear, we have been here before. * John Adams: Party of One, Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
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