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...Click here for the answers James Walton is co-host of “The Booker Prize Podcast”...
...Additional contributions from Gary Jones and Euan Healy...
...Highlights Lunch with the FT provides a big scoop this week: Gary Neville is fed up with people over thinking potatoes....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...Books The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist, announced this week, showcases novels based on real-life events, from Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship to the Magdalene Laundries abuses....
...Our Country Friendsby Gary Shteyngart, Allen & Unwin £14.99/Random House $28 One of the first — and best — lockdown novels, Our Country Friends traps a mismatched group of over-educated and underemployed...
...“I sat there without a helmet, reading Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary . . . above lines of Israeli and Syrian tanks. I’m an atheist but reading there was almost a secular prayer....
...Beautifully written and Booker-shortlisted, the novel is also unexpectedly funny in a rueful way....
...For every post-industrial turnround story, such as Pittsburgh, there are a dozen Youngstowns, Garys and Clevelands that are continuing to sink....
...Back in the mid-1980s he had taken to heart the words of the Aboriginal rights activist Gary Foley about appropriation, and had remained wary of “colonising the imaginations and the self-view of the people...
...The FT's Gary Silverman gives the context for the pressure placed on the retailer to lift wages by forces ranging from the political to the competitive, as it responds to marketplace rivals including Costco...
...As chief executive of Cigna, one of the America's largest health insurers, David Cordani tells the FT's national editor, Gary Silverman, that no country has a corner on wisdom when it comes to health care...
...FT video producer Chris Booker and I want to experiment more with video formats and ideas this year, and we used this first video as an excuse to whinge about the open-plan office....
...Above is a video by the FT’s Chris Booker this morning about the candidacies of Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer for New York City mayor and comptroller, respectively....
...Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission - the body responsible for the lion's share of the fine issued to Barclays bank for Libor manipulation - says the public should not...
...Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and the National Book Award....
...Like Corey Booker, a fellow Ivy League graduate who is now mayor of his depressed home town of Newark, New Jersey, Ms Freeman-Wilson has lured other high-achieving Gary natives back home to help her with...
...Gary, Indiana - the once booming steel town which sits just south of Chicago's shimmering skyline - is struggling to find its footing into the future, like many other post-industrial American cities...
...Booker prize-winning Irish novelist John Banville tells me at the book festival how a humbleness was lost in the boom....
...Caesars' Entertainment chief executive Gary Loveman plays long/short...
...Caesars entertainment chief executive Gary Loveman tells the FT's Matt Garrahan that there is light at the end of the tunnel for the gaming industry....
...Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming, by Gary Gorton, Oxford University Press USA, RRP£19.99 In this important book, the Yale School of Management professor explains that crises...
...Booker rose 10.5 per cent to 77¾p. The food wholesaler posted unexpectedly strong first-quarter revenue growth of 9.5 per cent and said trading was in line with full-year expectations....
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