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...The pair cuss like seadogs, bitching about Ninette de Valois, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Frederick Ashton, with Barnett roaring the very Ravenhillian line: “Fuck Kenneth Clark!”...
...Laura also loved The Fraud by Zadie Smith – Fred’s picks for history lovers are Revolutionary Spring by Christopher Clark and King: a Life by Jonathan Eig; Laura’s is Red Memory by Tanya Branigan – For...
...2023 shortlist were Hannah Barnes’s Time to Think, an account of the Tavistock gender clinic in London; Tania Branigan’s Red Memory, a study of the long shadow of China’s Cultural Revolution; Christopher Clark...
...Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark (Allen Lane) Clark charts the emergence of a new Europe in an exhilarating reappraisal of 1848 — one of the most dramatic and...
...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....
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...Literary editor Frederick Studemann and deputy books editor Laura Battle take us into a secret room in the basement of the FT, where all the books sent in for review are kept behind lock and key....
...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...
...“We had a flood four years ago,” says Tom Clark, market manager. “And now this.”...
...Anjana Ahuja Science commentator Jamil Anderlini Asia editor Tony Barber Europe editor Nick Butler Energy commentator Camilla Cavendish Contributing editor and columnist Pilita Clark Business...
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...Pilita Clark FT associate editor and business columnist Two books I read out of duty this year brought unexpected pleasure....
...revival of Cunningham’s 1964 Cross Currents was another chance to immerse themselves in the choreographer’s style, but Royal Ballet director Kevin O’Hare cleverly opened things out by juxtaposing it with Frederick...
...Nothing like it had been done in North America since Lewis and Clark. Rasmussen did not undertake such journeys with endurance records in mind....
...Clark selects four prominent figures for study: Frederick William, the Great Elector, who ruled Brandenburg-Prussia from 1640 to 1688 and laid the foundations of its power; Frederick the Great, who reigned...
...Pilita Clark Imagine how much more work would get done if we only spent an hour a day on email....
...Tell us in the comments below Frederick Studemann, FT literary editor Of the many memorable books of 2019, John Lanchester’s The Wall (Faber, RRP£8.99/WW Norton, RRP$25.95) stood out....
...More recent research suggests voters may be mistaken, writes the FT’s Pilita Clark....
...to Nazi Germany, Christopher Clark’s book focuses on how four rulers — the Great Elector, Frederick the Great, Bismarck and Hitler — understood historical and future time in distinctive ways that shaped...
...Pilita Clark FT columnist Siri Hustvedt’s highbrow page-turner, What I Loved, might not seem the most obvious reading choice....
...Fitzgerald Kennedy, Hyannisport, Massachusetts, September 2 1976; George Wallace, governor of Alabama, Ocala, Florida, March 5 1976; AM Rosenthal, managing editor, The New York Times, New York, August 20 1976; Clark...
...Frederick Studemann FT’s literary editor Singling out one book from the sacks that arrive daily at the FT’s offices is an almost impossible task....
...Frederick Studemann, literary editor of the FT City of Devils by Paul French (Riverrun, RRP£16.99/Picador, RRP$28) was a surprise discovery....
...Frederick Studemann, FT’s literary editor 2019 has already delivered many delights to the FT books desk....
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