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...Connie Chan simply looks to China....
...Lurking behind all this is the “singularity”, a radical notion about a tipping point of human technological fusion popularised by author Ray Kurzweil, who appears in the book in a minor role....
...The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unravelling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland, Macmillan Business £22/$32, 352 pages Robin Wigglesworth is the editor of FT Alphaville Join our...
...I am thinking about what it’s like to see an image of Ray’s back, sloped and soft and emerging painfully from bed and, a few pages later, another image of Jason’s back, young and tough but strained, veins...
...Ray’s subtle “Pikoo’s Diary” (1970) centres on a boy observing what he doesn’t realise is his mother’s affair....
...Tales of breakdowns, tears and surveillance litter its pages....
...Explored in beautiful prose, the book’s central themes of identity and authenticity stay with us long after we turn the last page....
...Candy Wilson, the most talented in the kitchen, is mourning the loss of Irma Ray, her unconventional, sardonic friend who has recently died. Candy finds solace in cooking: she “loved to dollop....
...The course shifts slightly every season, is signalled by someone tootling a conch shell and requires runners to tear pages from various books placed en route to prove they’ve stayed the course....
...In the studios sit high-tech equipment and tools – from digital microscopes to macro X-ray fluorescence scanning equipment – but also unframed paintings on wooden easels, brushes and varnishes....
...The beautiful brevity of poems can often give us much more to ponder than is on the page....
...Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt Bloomsbury, £30, 352 pages...
...We learn early on that he’s “made love to one woman in my life”: his wife, Connie....
...Hamilton spends so long on Ipswich that the book loses momentum before reaching the World Cup — a mere 70-page section of this 400-page tome....
...Held by Anne Michaels Bloomsbury £16.99/Penguin $27, 240 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...A more radical shaking-up of expectations occurs in the new novel by Ray Celestin....
...He recently wrote a 17-page letter to MPs on the Treasury Committee, responding to various questions and concerns they had raised including on HMRC’s action to tackle scheme developers....
...Days after falling for the Paul Smith scam I was being shown other fake ads, with Ray-Ban sunglasses particularly popular....
...Beyond Silicon Valley, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater, applauded in both books for the radical transparency policy at his hedge fund group, has come under attack for presiding over a dysfunctional organisation...
...In later books, we see the growing influence of surrealism (there are nods to Dora Maar’s suspended limbs, Man Ray’s confrontational nudes, Claude Cahun’s costumes and Eva Hesse’s delicate sculptures), as...
...The reek and barks of the junkyard’s underfed dogs leap from the page....
...The letter has stepped up to fill linguistic gaps, be it in X-ray, initially a term for unknown radiation, or x, the enigma we strive to solve in acrobatic algebraic problems....
...The flotation of Turkish soda ash producer We Soda was reckoned to be a “ray of light”, but it foundered over valuation....
...At the beginning of the book, we reacquaint ourselves with Ray Carney, the hero of the previous novel, who has decided to go straight....
...Here is the Financial Times’s guide to who was charged in Willis’s sprawling 98-page indictment....
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