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...Owner Olivier Giroux, who lost half his crop in 2021, told me he still preferred this challenging vintage to hotter ones “when the vines have lost their leaves by August”....
...Sally Rooney and Anne Enright are fans, which tells you something....
...A Woman’s Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis, translated by Tash Aw, Harvill Secker, £12.99, 128 pages/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $20, 112 pages Anne-Sylvaine Chassany is the FT’s world news editor...
...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...
...Twilight of Democracy: The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends, by Anne Applebaum, Allen Lane, RRP£16.99/Doubleday, RRP$25, 224 pages Applebaum is as comfortable writing about people and their...
...In O’Farrell’s fictionalisation, though, the spotlight falls to neither father nor son, but to the boy’s mother Agnes (Anne) Hathaway....
...In their book Deaths of Despair, Anne Case and Angus Deaton spelt out the toll this has taken on working-class white men in particular....
...The future of capitalism is also the subject of Anne Case and Angus Deaton’s book Deaths of Despair (Princeton RRP$27.95/£20, March), a chilling portrayal by two leading US economists of the decline of...
...The Governesses , by Anne Serre, translated by Mark Hutchinson, Les Fugitives, RRP£10 Serre is the French author of 14 novels but this — her debut — is the first to be translated into English....
...The Farm , by Héctor Abad, translated by Anne McLean, World Editions, RRP£12.99/ Archipelago, RRP$20 When his mother’s death brings him back to the family farm in Colombia, Antonio Angel must confront the...
...The Shape of the Ruins , by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne MacLean, Maclehose Press, RRP£20/Riverhead, RRP$27 In this gripping novel by one of Colombia’s finest authors, the past weighs heavily...
...All We Saw , by Anne Michaels, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$27 Michaels was an acclaimed poet long before she won the 1997 Orange Prize for her novel Fugitive Pieces....
...Iranian town of Isfahan, whose clasping of the intimate and the infinite is a feat of world architecture, or Leonardo da Vinci’s essay in divine and familial harmony, his cartoon of Virgin and Child with St Anne...
...Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp....
...takes authorial chutzpah to write about a 17th-century tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, with historical asides ranging from the decapitation of Anne...
...The Laughing Monsters, by Denis Johnson, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$25 “Anarchy. Madness. Things falling apart.”...
...The Green Road, by Anne Enright, Cape, RRP£16.99/WW Norton, RRP$26.95 Like The Gathering, Enright’s 2007 Booker winner, The Green Road centres on a family reunion....
...… ART Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life , by TJ Clark and Anne Wagner, Tate Publishing, RRP£19.99 This smart volume accompanying Tate’s recent and radical re-evaluation of Lowry is delightfully...
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