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US banks
Goldman bought UK and US companies using Chinese state funds
...The bank’s chief executive David Solomon met CIC’s executive vice-president Qi Bin and chair Peng Chun in March, according to a CIC statement....
August 29, 2023
ReviewFiction
Your Absence Is Darkness — a rich mosaic of Icelandic storytelling
...The novel even features, as a postscript, its own playlist of key tracks featured in the text: Nick Cave to The Beatles; David Bowie to Amy Winehouse....
April 24, 2024
FT Live
Business Book of the Year Award 2024
The search for the best business book is under way
Monday, 9 December1 Grosvenor Pl, London SW1X 7HJ, UK
ReviewBooks
Who Owns This Sentence? — an attack on copyright
...: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos and Alexandre Montagu Mountain Leopard Press £22, 384 pages...
January 11, 2024
ReviewFT Books Essay
Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré
...David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré, had no time for James Bond. Ian Fleming’s pasteboard hero, scoffed the younger spy-turned-author, “on his magic carpet takes us away from moral doubt”....
October 12, 2023
ReviewBiography and memoir
The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
...David Pryce-Jones, whose biography of Hitler-loving Unity Mitford prompted a venomous anti-Weidenfeld campaign, thinks that “He needed love and he was looking for it all the time.”...
September 27, 2023
ReviewFiction
The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House
...Given the absence of the Slough House cast of misfits, the tone feels darker than before — less David Brent, more George Smiley....
September 8, 2023
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
ReviewFiction
The Factory — a nightmarish Japanese satire on working lives
...This is captivating, disquieting prose, deftly captured in David Boyd’s translation....
December 7, 2023
Climate change
UK climate watchdog chief quits as Sunak green policy comes under fire
...Lord David Willetts, a former Tory minister known as “two Brains” for his intellectual mien, is widely considered to be the frontrunner as CCC chair....
January 11, 2024
ReviewFiction
The Romantic by William Boyd — a wild ride across the 19th century
...His delicious jeu d’esprit Nat Tate: An American Artist, published in 1998, purported to be the biography of a lost painter, and came with praise from David Bowie and Gore Vidal, who were in on the joke....
September 29, 2022
The Weekend Essay
Effective altruism was the favoured creed of Sam Bankman-Fried. Can it survive his fall?
.../ From Jeff Boyd, London E9, UK Imagine Anatole France’s take on effective altruism / From James Meyer, Gurnee, IL, US...
December 29, 2023
HTSI
20 ways to look soigné at the best soirées this winter
...large bracelet, $4,300 Saint Laurent crepe maxi dress, £2,175 Louis Vuitton preowned leather sandals, £250, reluxefashion.com Blancpain red-gold Villeret Quantième Annuel GMT watch, £34,100 Fferrone Boyd...
November 25, 2022
The Art Market
Christie’s gets Gauguin and Joan Mitchell in $50mn collection
...Those in on the hoax at Modern Painters magazine, where Boyd was on the editorial board, included the musician David Bowie, who hosted a launch party while Boyd himself created Tate’s art....
September 22, 2022
FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
Best books of 2022: Fiction in translation
...Diary of a Voidby Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North, Harvill Secker £12.99 Ms Shibata, a company employee burdened with the menial tasks her male colleagues consider to be a woman’s work...
November 25, 2022
The Big Read
Has China become too cosy with private equity?
...In 2015, the prime minister at the time David Cameron called for the UK to become “the partner of choice” for China in the west in a speech marking the visit of the Chinese president Xi Jinping....
May 31, 2023
Robin Lane Fox
Ravishing roses to riveting books: Christmas gifts for gardeners
...A neatly potted rose for an arch or wall now has a tag of £30 if it is from the David Austin stable....
December 16, 2022
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
ReviewFiction
All the Lovers in the Night — a piercing study of female loneliness
...Deftly translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, her prose retains the accessibility of a blog, with glimpses of lyricism. “Why is the night made up entirely of light?”...
June 10, 2022
Boyd Tonkin
Damon Galgut and a year of triumph for African literature
...In addition to Galgut’s victory and the French-Senegalese David Diop’s triumph in the International Booker Prize, the Zanzibar-born Abdulrazak Gurnah took the Nobel....
November 6, 2021
Summer Books 2022
Best summer books of 2022: Fiction in translation
...All The Lovers In The Nightby Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, Picador £14.99 Catching a glimpse of her reflection in a window, Fuyuko, a freelance proofreader in her thirties who...
June 25, 2022
ReviewMusic
Rusalka, Garsington — country-house opera worth travelling to see
...If David Alden’s production left a lingering sense of déjà vu, that is because he already directed Otello for English National Opera back in 2014....
June 20, 2022
Music
12 operas to see in the UK this summer
...David Pountney directs....
June 1, 2022
Summer Books 2022
Best summer books of 2022: Critics’ picks
...Kawakami’s novel, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd, acutely explores the nature of workplace relationships and intimate connections while challenging society’s expectations of what it means to be a...
June 25, 2022
ReviewFiction
The Pages by Hugo Hamilton — if a book could speak
...Her grandfather, then a student, received Rebellion for safekeeping after his Jewish literature professor, David Glückstein, rescued the volume from the infamous Nazi book-burning on Opernplatz in May 1933...
July 14, 2021
Emma Howard-Boyd
Aid to the developing world is the key to fighting climate change
...The writer is chair of the Environment Agency This weekend, Sir David Attenborough told G7 leaders that urgent action on climate change is needed “this decade”....
June 14, 2021
Jo Ellison
The spy who came in for a snooze
...It is so “sophisticated” in its “unspooling”, agrees William Boyd, that for the “sheer aesthetic pleasure of reading,” he has returned to it “three or four times”....
March 25, 2022
Pollution
Water companies to be probed over sewage discharges into rivers
...David Black, interim chief executive of financial regulator Ofwat, said it was looking at the “management and corporate behaviours of companies”....
November 18, 2021

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