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...Spain’s version of Elena Ferrante has been revealed to be three middle-aged men....
...US envoy to Haiti resigns Daniel Foote, the US special envoy to Haiti, has resigned in protest at what he described as the Biden administration’s “inhumane, counterproductive decision” to deport thousands...
...There’s definitely Paul Bowles and Daniel Rondeau – the American and French chroniclers, respectively, of the city. 28 Khalid Ibn El Oualid, Tanger 90000 (+212 5393 71367) Maria Shollenbarger Marfa Book...
...The unravelling of the American global order is explored in Exit from Hegemony (OUP RRP$29.95, February/RRP£22.99, May) by Alexander Cooley and Daniel Nexon, who lay out how US global power is changing...
...I’m also currently midway through Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels and finding them increasingly engaging and wonderful....
...Lucy Kellaway FT columnist The only thing wrong with the fourth volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet — the story of an intense, lethal friendship between two women — is that it is the last one....
...The other five shortlisted authors were José Eduardo Agualusa, the pseudonymous author Elena Ferrante, the banned Chinese author Yan Lianke, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk and the Austrian author Robert...
...The Story of the Lost Child, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Euan Cameron, Europa Editions, RRP£11.99/$18 The final instalment of Ferrante’s triumphant Neapolitan quartet picks up the story of life-long...
...Elena Ferrante 9. Anish Kapoor 10....
...Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend I admit. I am one of those devoted fans of Haruki Murakami....
...It is hard to imagine that Hirst had never seen the earliest pictorial records of natural history cabinets – those of Ferrante Imperato (engraved in 1599) with an enormous crocodile suspended from its ceiling...
...… Caroline Daniel Editor of FT Weekend I admit. I am one of those devoted fans of Haruki Murakami....
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