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...But he added: “I’m not sure we will.” The WHO should be more of a public “conductor” of initiatives to improve global health rather than running them inside the organisation, Farrar said....
...August Blue by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) A virtuoso pianist named Elsa M Anderson skitters around Europe — shadowed all the while by her mysterious doppelgänger — after a...
...August Blue by Deborah Levy (Hamish Hamilton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) With its strong female protagonist and uncanny effects, August Blue — featuring a virtuoso pianist named Elsa M Anderson, together with...
...“I’m here on the edge of metamorphosis.” So reads the epigraph — borrowed from the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire — to Darryl Pinckney’s Come Back in September....
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...I’m not happy with their service but concerned my offer will be withdrawn if I don’t use them — what should I do? Jayna Patel, associate at Wilsons solicitors, says absolutely not....
...Instead I’m standing on the shoulders of these women.”...
...“I’m reassured by that prospect,” said Farrar....
...But on Monday Farrar said: “On balance, I’m in favour of offering vaccines to 12-year-olds and above.”...
...In 2018, the artists Chris Woebken and Sascha Pohflepp created a small garden, just 25 sq m in size, on the island of São Miguel in the Azores....
...as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”....
...“You cannot stop it, you can only slow it down,” said Medley, who is also chair of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (Spi-M)....
...Jeremy Farrar, thank you very much. Pleasure....
...I’m with Simon Schama, in his review for the FT: “this reader wouldn’t want a word less”....
...Monod and Jacob posited there had to be an intermediate molecule that somehow transmitted the information to the body’s protein-making factory — the “messenger” that is the “m” in mRNA....
...Books I’m reading Five Go on a Strategy Away Day — Bruno Vincent King Leopold’s Ghost — Adam Hochschild News reports Snakebites: Like having my hand smashed by a hammer As Kofi Annan once said: “Snakebite...
...“Tell me what you want,” a man asks the unnamed American narrator of Cleanness, in an S&M encounter in Sofia, Bulgaria....
...Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty, by Norman M Naimark, Belknap Press, RRP$29.95/£23.95 Naimark has few peers as a scholar of Stalinism, the Soviet Union and mid-20th-century...
...publishes Come Down in February (Corsair RRP£10.99, February); Scotland’s Don Paterson is back with Zonal (Faber RRP£14.99, March) and Northern Ireland’s Colette Bryce addresses unexpected bereavement in The M...
...“I’m one of the dying breed of private buy-to-let investors,” he says....
...Yaseen Aslam, the Uber driver who first took the firm to court alongside fellow worker James Farrar, said: “I’m delighted with today’s ruling but frustrated the process has dragged on for over three years...
...Brazil: A Biography , by Lilia M Schwarcz and Heloisa M Starling, Allen Lane, RRP£30/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$40 The old joke that “Brazil is the country of the future and always will be” has been given...
...“I’m the first true Iraqi citizen,” says the creature, in this biting satire of Iraqi life and sectarian disputes, winner of the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction....
...Books I'm reading Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari....
...“I keep sleeping in the wrong places, I think, or maybe I’m just waking up not where I am,” one says....
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