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...His dry sense of absurdity gave an intelligent topspin to works such as 1974’s Primate (about sometimes ridiculous experiments on monkeys and apes) and 1979’s Manoeuvre (about Nato war games, make-believe...
...Enlightenment by Sarah Perry (Jonathan Cape)The bestselling author of 2016’s eerie, gothicky The Essex Serpent and 2018’s Melmoth returns with a new story set again in eastern England, following a pair of...
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor...
...It is her most straightforwardly enjoyable record since 2016’s A Day For the Hunter, A Day For the Prey....
...They also sold the Frederick’s of Hollywood lingerie label to Davis-Rice for A$1 plus $12.6mn to cover its liabilities, while forgiving $9.5mn in intercompany loans....
...The jury — chaired by FT literary editor Frederick Studemann — called it “an extraordinary and elegantly rendered account of a terrifying climate disaster that engulfed a community and industry”....
...In 1968’s The Alphabet, the letters of the alphabet song literally swarm the terrified girl singing them. It is there also in his more recent work off screen....
...That choice, and the fact that this year’s S&P 500 gains have predominantly been driven by just a handful of growth stocks, has contributed to the lagging performance of mutual funds....
...What is it about Fred Again..’s particular brand of electronic music that has resonated quite so strongly with a new generation?...
...Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan (Bloomsbury) Revelatory and timely look at how understandings of relationships with the natural world have shaped human history from the author of 2015’s...
...More on this topic It’s time to drop “Eurasia”, a concept that is less innocent than it sounds and has roots in Russian imperialism — a commentary by the scholar S Frederick Starr for the American Purpose...
...Private lenders say they’ve avoided the “cov-lite” watering- down of contracts that has taken over elsewhere in debt markets. No mark to market....
...boasting that not a single covered bond — which lies at the opposite end of the risk spectrum to racier additional tier 1 (AT1) bonds — has defaulted since they were first dreamt up in the court of Prussia’s Frederick...
...If Ford is taking the F1-lite approach, Audi is going all in; buying the Swiss based Sauber team, rebranding it as Audi, and making its own engine....
...The S&P 500 index closed down 1.1 per cent in New York, bringing its losses for the week to 2.7 per cent....
...Arrests were made over the years, including, in 2016, a former police officer, Frederick Lamb, who lived two doors up from Wiley and who seemed to confess to the crime while being interviewed....
...Rhys Antoni Yeomans made light work of Frederick Ashton’s witty, Bournonvillean Neapolitan duet, as did Victor Prigent at Sunday’s matinee....
...In the US, the broad S&P 500 equities index closed 1.5 per cent higher and the Nasdaq Composite rose 3.3 per cent, led by tech stocks including Facebook owner Meta....
...This is despite the fact the S&P 500 is on track to report its first year on year earnings decline since the height of the pandemic....
...The Royal Ballet dusted off the family silver last weekend for a sublime triple bill of work by Frederick Ashton that reasserts the genius of their founder-choreographer....
...Their critique is perhaps best laid out in 2018’s The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff....
...But not all anticipate the “ESG-lite”, broad-brush funds fading away....
...Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor; Laura Battle is the FT’s deputy books editor. Poetry selections by Maria Crawford Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...SMAC 0723’s massive gravity bends space, causing the distant light from the galaxies behind to curve around it....
...His humanity shines through far more naturally than in The Sopranos-lite therapy scenes that punctuate the narrative....
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