Hints and tips:
...Morten O. Ravn: There are some green shoots in the latest US numbers signalling that the Federal Open Market Committee may be able to avoid continuing aggressive fed funds rate rises....
...There are provocative projects, such as Piotr Uklanski’s “The Nazis”, a grid of 164 portraits of famous actors, including Harrison Ford, Ralph Fiennes and Yul Brynner, all dressed, in character, as officers...
...Among his many speeches, he delivered the Per Jacobsson Foundation Lecture in Washington DC, the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, the Bagehot speech at the Economist...
...The Life of Louis XVI, by John Hardman, Yale, RRP£25/$40 A lifetime’s learning and love for 18th-century French history elevate Hardman’s biography into the fullest, most convincing portrait of Louis XVI...
...Alpe d’Huez: The Story of Pro Cycling’s Greatest Climb, by Peter Cossins, Aurum Press, RRP£16.99 The start of the Tour de France, next weekend, always coincides with the publication of a rash of biographies...
...of ‘War and Gold’ (Bloomsbury) I have enjoyed many books this year but one that stood out, partly because of its unusual nature, was Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (Little, Brown) by Richard J...
...He woke early and caught a seven o’clock bus a block from home....
...One can see why Val McDermid said that she wished she’d written it....
...Neil O’Sullivan …………………………………………………………….....
...“I thought that Mark was an injured soul,” says Ellen Ruffin, curator of the de Grummond Collection....
...Diary of a Bad Year By J.M....
...This year In April, Erra was named a Chevalier de la legion d’honneur for her contribution to the French economy and to the “evolution of the role of women in French society”....
...Ogletree had assembled a pro bono legal dream team, including Johnnie Cochrane, triumphant defender of O.J....
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