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...The Financial Times has a special magazine issue marking the anniversary of the war featuring essays by our Ukraine correspondent Christopher Miller and academic Mary Elise Sarotte, alongside a powerful...
...APRIL Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World by Brett Christophers (Verso) In this follow-up to Rentier Capitalism, Christophers turns his attention to the new masters of the universe...
...It’s a particularly English way of doing things (past exponents also include the gimlet-eyed Christopher Gibbs). “In the US we don’t have that tradition....
...His fraudulent misrepresentations were connected to works by artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christopher Wool and Rudolf Stingel....
...It would be the first big merger of talent groups since the William Morris Agency combined with Endeavor in 2009....
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...It’s habit-forming. jkplace.paris Alexandra Marshall Westlight at The William Vale, New York I wanted to hate Westlight, because to me The William Vale represents everything weird and artificial about...
...1,053: Martyn Haley, Conwy, Wales Crossword 16,350: PJ Morsan, Winchester, England; Andrew Palfreman, Hull, England; Richard Heaton, London Polymath 1,052: AJ Cullens, London Crossword 16,344: John Williams...
...Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, by William Quinn and John D Turner, Cambridge, RRP£18.99, 296 pages A lovely book....
...If convicted he might have to trade in his jet-set life for a drab federal prison cell,” said FBI assistant director William F Sweeney Jr in a statement....
...This L-shaped room occupied a glass-windowed corner of the building’s 10th floor, and every detail was designed by Wright. It is a paean to plywood....
...But the Baroque did find visual genius in 17th-century England — in its architects: John Vanbrugh at Castle Howard and Blenheim, Christopher Wren at St Paul’s, Nicholas Hawksmoor’s rhythmic yet disquieting...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press RRP£24/$29.95 William Silber’s book is mostly about silver in American history...
...The Rise of the Civilisational State, by Christopher Coker, Polity RRP£55 hardback/£17.99 paperback The idea of the nation-state is familiar....
...Matthew L Tompkins is an experimental psychologist and professional magician....
...William Haseltine, a serial American biotech entrepreneur, abandoned the creation of a new company after a Chinese investor who pledged $30m in seed money pulled out....
.../ From Paul L Davies, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Law, University of Oxford, UK...
...When it comes to original movie musicals, the track record is hardly spotless, whether it’s Francis Ford Coppola’s costly flop One from the Heart (1982) or James L Brooks’s I’ll Do Anything (1994), which...
...He also named a volume of aphorisms after the city, L’Ombra di Venezia....
...Here is William Pope.L’s smelly room-within-a-room containing 2,750 slices of putrefying bologna....
...It was called Chanticlere, so Adolph Sr adapted the name. It would suit scores of country houses in debt-propelled England....
...Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism, by Barnabas Calder, William Heinemann, RRP£25, 416 pages Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World, by Christopher Beanland, Frances Lincoln, RRP£20/$30...
...Williams, to June 21, whitechapelgallery.org...
...Sachs/Christopher Williams; Private collection/Christopher Williams...
...LHT odysseyarena.com, 028 9073 9074 … Pharrell, October 9-10, O2 Arena, London Hitmaker-turned-hit singer Pharrell Williams brings his “Dear G I R L” tour to the O2 Arena....
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