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...Erica Benner’s ‘Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power’ is published by Allen Lane on February 8 Find out about our latest stories first — follow @FTWeekend on Instagram and X, and...
...Adventures in Democracy: The Turbulent World of People Power by Erica Benner (Allen Lane)A political philosopher explores the flaws and weaknesses of people power in a world defined by competition, wealth...
...Yet perhaps the most familiar of familiars is the cat, with its recurring presence in ghost stories from the time of Edgar Allen Poe onwards....
...In the book’s final section are found eloquent portraits of his contemporaries: Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell, Sylvia Plath, Hannah Arendt....
...Wolfish: The Stories We Tell About Fear, Ferocity and Freedom by Erica Berry (Flatiron/Canongate) Understanding the wolf as both a folkloric totem and a vehicle for different takes on social mores, Berry...
...Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart, Allen & Unwin £14.99/Random House $28, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill, Allen Lane £20, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
..., written by Morris Pearl and Erica Payne....
...Be Like The Fox: Machiavelli’s Lifelong Quest for Freedom, by Erica Benner, Allen Lane RRP£20, 384 pages Julian Baggini is author of ‘Freedom Regained’ (Granta) Photograph: Imagno/Austrian Archives...
...Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge, by Erica Wagner, Bloomsbury, RRP£20/$28 How Washington Roebling oversaw the creation of a New York landmark....
...Here is Allen Ginsberg imagining Walt Whitman in a supermarket: “We strode down the open corridors together in our solitary fancy . . . ”; and here is Mary Frances Kennedy’s complex evolution into the gastronomic...
...Ezra Stoller, Photographer , by Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, Yale University Press, RRP£45 Stoller was the photographer of US mid-century modernism, his pictures proselytising the US lifestyle to a...
...Allen Meadows, an American finance executive turned burgundy guru, aka Burghound, has just published his first book himself. Well, not exactly himself....
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