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...According to the title of a 1961 William Burroughs novel, what kind of machine is the human body? What was the title of David Bowie’s 1973 album of cover versions?...
...If that’s sounds a tad too hot, there’s the North Pole marathon on Saturday, which on average takes place in a very cool minus 25C....
...Which single of the 1990s — a number one in both Britain and America (where it was the first hip-hop song to top the Billboard charts) — samples “Under Pressure” by Queen and David Bowie?...
...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Later, realising we never discussed the Booker, for which she has been nominated three times, I email her: “Prizes, and especially the Booker, generally help bring books to the attention of more readers....
...Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop Pushkin Press £16.99, 256 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov has won this year’s International Booker Prize for his novel Time Shelter, a hard-hitting comedy set in present-day Europe that explores political populism and the...
...The writer is author of ‘More Than I Love My Life’ and Winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize and the 2018 Israel Prize Translated by Jessica Cohen Some 1,000 killed, more than 3,000 injured...
...In a memo to staff this week entitled “The Greatest Story Ever Told”, GB News executive Mick Booker compared the channel to a modern day TV Noah’s ark or a biblical David that, to some, was “the saviour...
...And even in this day and age, the US Treasury secretary doing a bit of gleeful insider trading is a tad implausible....
...that led to David Lynch asking him to score Lost Highway (1997), itself a Scala-esque film....
...Others may similarly choose to let the Booker Prize, or Radio 3’s record review, do a similar job of separating sheep from goats....
...David Pilling is the FT’s Africa editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on X...
...International Booker: The winner of the book prize is announced in London. Who will win the US-China tech war?...
...This month, 17 of the world’s most famous fiction writers, including David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Rachel Vail, George RR Martin, Jonathan Franzen and George Saunders, joined a lawsuit filed...
...David Diop, a French novelist of Senegalese origin who won the International Booker Prize in 2021 for his novel At Night All Blood is Black (originally published in French as Frère d’âme), about Senegalese...
...Biography of X by Catherine Lacey (Granta/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) This is a meticulously researched biography of an artist who collaborated with David Bowie, partied with Andy Warhol and took New York...
...The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government by David Torrance (Bloomsbury) In a year when the Labour party may return to office in the UK, a history of its first spell in government...
...Patten and Coker Sr were arrested in North Carolina last September. Hometown’s sole asset was a lunch spot in the refinery town of Paulsboro....
...Other stuff I liked this week David Grossman, winner of the Man Booker International Prize in 2017, wrote an article in the Financial Times this week about the sense of betrayal felt by Israelis towards...
...The trial will be held away from the public UK, Shortlist for the Booker Prize announced Switzerland, Trinity, a 67mn-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex goes up for auction in Zurich....
...The novel opens with a shifty ex-con named Felix Mordaunt arriving at Arden, the country house where Godley Sr lay dying in The Infinities....
...“To become a party boss, you have to take on a party boss, which is what Menendez did,” said David Wildstein, the founder and editor of the New Jersey Globe, an online politics site....
...May I recommend to your readers a book by David Colon, with a title that faces at once the problem of the Murdoch empire: Rupert Murdoch....
...Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) The winner of this year’s International Booker Prize — the first Bulgarian novel to bag the award — is a warning about...
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