Hints and tips:
...To the Dogs (Canongate £16.99) sees Welsh in assertive form, her subject contemporary academia in thrall to wealthy students from overseas....
...A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle That Shaped the Middle East by James Barr (2011)A lively, even entertaining account of the decisive moment in the history of the modern day Middle East...
...I’m deeply in thrall to this arcane, transformative power of the ribbon....
...His pitch is expected to rest as much on his record in office as it will on the dysfunction within a Republican party that, in many respects, is still in thrall to Donald Trump....
...massive spending on political advertising as both parties made their final pitches to Americans, who will cast their verdict on Joe Biden’s agenda as well as the appeal of a Republican party that is still in thrall...
...The latter live in thrall to Michael’s chief antagonist Harry, a small-time criminal and noxious chip off Dada’s block....
...“When Steve Jobs or Gordon Ramsay or James Cameron demand perfection, they’re exalted as geniuses in their respective fields,” she writes....
...James Cahill’s wildly enjoyable Tiepolo Blue (Sceptre £14.99) centres on Don Lamb, a sheltered Cambridge academic whose head is literally in the (painted) clouds....
...Early Surrealist design was able to critique a society increasingly in thrall to consumerism by hijacking everyday objects such as the telephone....
...For just three minutes and five seconds, she held the court in thrall. It was an unusual sighting. Moss doesn’t like to talk....
...He is still clearly in thrall to it....
...“There’s definitely a view in the market that Draghi can do no wrong, that everything he touches turns to gold,” said James Athey, a bond portfolio manager at Aberdeen Standard Investments....
...Then there was the thrall of German officials....
...Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir: Part II is an extremely satisfying sequel to her 1980s-set memoir about a naive young film student falling under the thrall of an oppressive older man, Anthony....
...But if they think it can go ahead, then that’s fantastic,” says James Holland-Hibbert, a dealer of British art....
...Spectacular visuals from James Weston Lewis and precise, methodical text from Carl Wilkinson (an FT contributor) combine to make difficult scientific concepts admirably clear and comprehensible....
...It is not a particularly insightful bit of analysis to note that the Republican party remains in the thrall of Trumpism a full six months after Donald Trump departed the White House....
...In a posthumous confession, she reveals that she was the thrall of an evil faerie. Was she mad? Is it a lie? Or, scarier, is it the truth?...
...Too many of the winemakers involved, particularly in St-Émilion, were still in thrall to a style I would call pastiche, wines too obviously marked by alcohol, sweetness, concentration and oak....
...“The WHO is so much in thrall to China’s influence, they have felt compelled to stay close to China’s line on this crisis,” says one UN diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity....
...For now, Mr Johnson’s thrall — and that of the nation — to at least one expert seems complete. sarah.neville@ft.com...
...In 17 Church Row , James Carol (Zaffre, RRP£7.99) riffs on our uneasy relationship with technology....
...The winning team, including a gloriously hungover Andrew Flintoff, triumphantly toured London in an open-topped bus, and I was teased by the genial James Naughtie on the BBC Today programme....
...decades to reach a peak, now plant trends catch on within days or weeks via social media, spread by influencers such as YouTube stars Summer Rayne Oakes and Harli G, and Instagrammers Hilton Carter and James...
...Yes, many economists and central bankers used to be in thrall to the Chicago school. But behavioural economists have long scoffed at its ideas....
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