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...Francis, also known as Fat Leonard....
...Montreal was the perfect place to grow up, which is largely why I brought my kids, Francis, nine, and Arcangelo, 14, back from New York....
...The US has released a close ally of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro in exchange for 10 Americans jailed in the Latin American country, as well as convicted Malaysian defence contractor Leonard Francis...
...Also in attendance were Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings and Warner Music owner Leonard Blavatnik, on whose corporate boards Döpfner sits....
...Liberalism and its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $26 Francis Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years...
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar Straus and Giroux $26, 178 pages Edmund Fawcett is author of ‘Liberalism’ (2018) and ‘Conservatism’ (2020) Join our online book...
...The latest project from Brendan Francis Newnam, writer and former co-host of The Dinner Party Download, it’s more an oddball travelogue in which Newnam and his friend, the writer Danielle Henderson, pitch...
...I’m trying to think… A copy of Two Stories, by Leonard and Virginia Woolf… There’s also a Lucian Freud portrait of a pigeon [Jones’s enthusiasms are by no means Bloomsbury exclusive]....
...Liberalism and Its Discontentsby Francis Fukuyama, Profile £16.99/Farrar Straus and Giroux $26 Fukuyama has been one of the most influential political theorists in the west for more than 30 years....
...He has already stepped down as a trustee of the Royal Academy Trust and the London gallery returned his donation towards its current exhibition, Francis Bacon: Man and Beast....
...A: The Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1623 Which investment group currently owns the rights to Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows?...
...Light Perpetualby Francis Spufford, Faber £16.99/Scribner $16.99 It seems odd to recommend a novel that begins with the deaths of five children as a life-affirming read, but Light Perpetual is exactly that...
...Francis is an ecologist based at a rewilding project in West Sussex, clearly based on the well-known Knepp estate....
...Meanwhile, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama returns to familiar areas of inquiry in Liberalism and its Discontents (Profile, March), a short, sharp defence of a world view under threat....
...In Fulfilment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March), Alec MacGillis brings the latest investigation into Amazon and its impact on small town, Main Street America....
...The author’s life (exhibit one: Hazzard met her future husband Francis Steegmuller at a party thrown by Muriel Spark in 1963) should generate a page-turner....
...(FAZ, FT) Pope Francis has called for constructive dialogue amid rising tensions in the eastern Mediterranean....
...Frolic and Detour , by Paul Muldoon, Faber £14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$25 Although Muldoon has been US-based for decades, Ireland’s history and landscape, characters and tragedies loom large over...
...The Flame , by Leonard Cohen, Canongate, RRP£20/ Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$28 Cohen was a poet before he was a musician, and with this posthumous collection his career completes its circle....
...Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition, by Francis Fukuyama, Profile, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 One of the world’s most influential political theorists...
...Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment , by Francis Fukuyama, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26/Profile, RRP£16.99, 240 pages The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity , by Kwame...
...Glenn Francis, aka “Fat Leonard”, a Singapore-based defence contractor who bribed a network of US military officers across Asia....
...(NYT) Leonard Cohen dies The Canadian singer-songwriter has died aged 82. He is considered by some to have been one of the most influential musicians of the past half century....
...Golden Hill, by Francis Spufford, Faber, RRP£16.99 Spufford, known as a distinguished writer of non-fiction, brings a hyperactive 18th-century New York to life in his first novel....
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