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...Auster’s most recent book was a biography of Stephen Crane; in 2017 his latest novel, the epic 4321, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize....
...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...
...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...
...In Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, which won the Booker Prize in 1993, and The Woman Who Walked into Doors, he chronicled the breaking up of a marriage and the subject of domestic abuse with boldness and subtlety...
...A reminder: the job of the Booker judges is to give the Booker Prize to a single author. That is, finally, the judges’ only job....
...Erica Wagner is a writer and critic Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...Her fifth and final novel, The Long Song — shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2010 — was a departure, heading back into the dark history of Jamaica’s past, narrated by a young woman, July, kept enslaved...
...Erica Wagner is the author of ‘Chief Engineer: the Man who Built the Brooklyn Bridge’ (Bloomsbury) Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Critic Erica Wagner, who has judged the prize twice, says the award can now return to its Commonwealth roots....
...Byatt’s work has been rewarded with many prizes during the course of her writing life: Possession, of course, took the Booker the year it was published....
...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....
...Neel Mukherjee and Richard Ovenden talk to Erica Wagner on: Alan Garner: A Discussion of Landscape and Legacy Monday April 4, 4pm, Bodleian, Divinity School, £12 Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee...
...Last-minute bookers should be particularly vigilant as criminals target peak periods — summer holiday or school breaks — when people are hunting for bargains....
...Reflecting the widened remit of the prize, this year there are six, not five, judges, of whom three have judged the Man Booker before – Alastair Niven, Erica Wagner and Professor Grayling....
...This year’s Man Booker prize will be announced on October 14 in London....
...And she is, I ought to say, my friend – a friendship cemented in 2002 when she chaired the Man Booker Prize. I was a judge for the first time and Yann Martel won with Life of Pi....
...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...
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