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...by Judith Butler (Allen Lane/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux)An argument for how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world from one of the leading authorities on the subject....
...It’s something that plays out too in Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, which pays reverent attention to the kitchen’s chain of command....
...‘Beyond the Wall: East Germany 1949-1990’ by Katja Hoyer is published by Allen Lane Frederick Studemann is the FT’s literary editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Shearman & Sterling partner James Duncan has quit the US law firm ahead of its merger with Allen & Overy to join Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London....
...FEBRUARY The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington (Allen Lane) Leading progressive...
...Frederick Studemann FT LITERARY EDITOR Much of my reading this year has been taken up with judging a prize that involved reading over 130 books of fiction in translation — so no room for anything else...
...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...
...Maria Theresa of Austria produced 16 children, overhauled much of her empire’s administration and waged war on her hated enemy, Frederick the Great of Prussia, as well as sending copious advice to her children...
...Sheena Iyengar, author of The Art of Choosing (shortlist, 2010), also went to history for her choice, Only Yesterday (1931), Frederick Lewis Allen’s informal history of the 1920s: “There is much to enjoy...
...He and Reinertson – together with John Vigeland of East Fork and Emma Allen, the founder of organic botanical skincare line Everyday Oil – have purchased several adjoining plots of land just outside town...
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...The family’s link with the Holy Roman Empire began in the 13th century, and by the mid-15th century the Emperor Frederick III felt powerful enough to embark on the imperial mythmaking that would successfully...
...Meanwhile, in the 1730s Frederick Prince of Wales spent £10.4m (£5,781) on his garden over three years....
...Lionel Barber, FT editor The Light That Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane, RRP£20) is a brilliant, original book on the crisis of modern liberalism....
...Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, by Roderick Beaton, Allen Lane, RRP£30/University of Chicago Press, RRP$35 Roderick Beaton’s impressive book sets Greece’s recent troubles in the context of recurrent...
...Read more #MeToo has shaken up a man’s world, but now the real work begins — Kate Allen “The past year has been an earthquake for gender politics....
...Frederick Studemann, literary editor of the FT City of Devils by Paul French (Riverrun, RRP£16.99/Picador, RRP$28) was a surprise discovery....
...defence of Corbyn from the Guardian by Maya Goodfellow: Labour isn’t flip — flopping on Brexit — this is practical politics Dylan Farrow asks in the LA Times: Why has the #MeToo revolution spared Woody Allen...
...Frederick Studemann writes that Berlin has become more international and less edgy....
...In her early twenties she fell for the dashing Frederick “Boy” Browning, a senior officer in the British army, thereafter treasurer to the Duke of Edinburgh; they married in 1932 and had three children....
...Between them, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson and Paul Allen have reignited popular excitement about the possibilities of space travel almost 50 years after Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon...
...Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City , by Richard Sennett, Allen Lane, RRP£25, 368 pages....
...Italy delivers a damning verdict on its elite by Tony Barber Women make the difference in Angela Merkel’s new cabinet by Frederick Studemann What you've been saying Passengers like WiFi less if they...
...remarked the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who lived nearby, after hearing about the commotion. “It’s about time we did something to assert ourselves.”...
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