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...The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories, by John L’Heureux, A Public Space, RRP$28, 432 pages David Vann’s latest novel, ‘Halibut on the Moon’, is published by Grove Atlantic Join our...
...Patrick Regan replaced John Neal, who left after a personal scandal, in January last year as chief executive....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has named Peter Guryan, Sara Razi and John Terzaken global co-chairs of the law firm’s antitrust and trade regulation practice, and David Vann as head of antitrust for Europe and...
...Finally, Matthew Vincent asks whether Morrisons is stealing John Lewis’s clothes. Wm Morrison and John Lewis have long embodied opposite ends of the high street, nay, the country....
...David Vann is author of ‘Goat Mountain’ (William Heinemann)...
...A Mile Down, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99/Da Capo, RRP$14.95 On holiday in Turkey, Vann comes across the steel hull of a 90ft boat and, fulfilling a dream, he decides to rebuild it and sail...
...For John Boyd Dunlop it was the year of the pneumatic tyre, originally invented for his son’s tricycle....
...Dirt, by David Vann, Harper, RRP$25.99/William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages The greatest movies were set in the American west, in the badlands, in Monument Valley, where John Ford roughnecks drank cowboy...
...Much as Neil Sheehan wove his damning history of the Vietnam war, A Bright Shining Lie, around the career of Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann, so Chandrasekaran uses Nicholson, the thoughtful marine commander...
...Dirt, by David Vann, William Heinemann, RRP£12.99, 272 pages Set in 1985, in a small patch of wild America, Vann’s novel follows the character of Galen, a skinny, adolescent shaman, who lives with his much-loved...
...John Reed is the FT’s motor industry correspondent...
...The UK’s annual youth enterprise festival, Enterprise Week, begins on Monday on FT.com with John Caudwell, who made a £1.2bn fortune from mobile phones, explaining how he would build a business if he were...
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