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...Joining them is ingénue Marian (newcomer Louisa Jacobson), who arrives in New York from rural Pennsylvania after the death of her profligate father....
...Martin Gilbert: private investor Veteran investor Martin Gilbert recently moved from co-chief exec of Standard Life Aberdeen to become vice-chairman....
...“If just a few asset managers in practice control most companies, that’s not how capitalism should work,” says Martin Schmalz, a professor of finance at Oxford university....
...Then Xerox settled with the activists and Mr Jacobson agreed to step down. Then Xerox reversed that decision. Then it fired Mr Jacobson anyway....
...Writing to Martin Buber, the existentialist philosopher, in May 1917, the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig set out his most passionate views on what he called “the Jewish question”....
...Read about Martin Wolf’s discussions at the Tsinghua University Academic Center for Chinese Economic Practice and Thinking....
...William Jacobson Shelburne Falls, MA, US...
...Howard Jacobson’s Pussy — a laboured satirical fabula about the Trump presidency published only a few months after the 2016 presidential election and written, Jacobson has said, in “a fury of disbelief”...
...Martin Luther King summed up 1956 as a year of global unrest when he said that “all over the world men are in revolt . . ....
...Howard Jacobson, J (Jonathan Cape) The British comic author won the Booker in 2010 with The Finkler Question....
...When Zuckerman Jacobson recently curated a show of works by Agnes Martin, she says: “I just made about six phone calls.” The AAM is a matter of minutes’ walking distance from the town’s best hotels....
..., Jacobson’s Man Booker-shortlisted novel is quite a departure from his 2010 prizewinning comedy The Finkler Question ....
...Martin Amis Author of ‘The Zone of Interest’ (Cape/Knopf) Lawrence Wright has become a formidable technician of synthesis and narrative....
...With judges who include Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon and V&A director Martin Roth, one of the year’s most eagerly awaited design and decorative arts awards is the Moët Hennessy PAD London Prize, whose winner takes...
...(The novel’s influence on Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question is unmissable.) Like Catch-22, the novel subsists on one joke....
...But literary favourites Ian McEwan and Martin Amis were snubbed by the judges for their most recent works, Solar and The Pregnant Widow....
...Miles Jacobson, studio director, Sports Interactive. Herbert Kretzmer, lyricist. Herbert (Bert) Kwouk, actor. Peter Kyle, former chief executive, Shakespeare’s Globe....
...Fiction The Pregnant Widow, by Martin Amis, Jonathan Cape RRP£18.99 When you look back at your life, you will think only of who you had sex with – according to Martin Amis, at least, whose amusing novel...
...“He’ll lick up the hind’s urine,” murmured Eales, “and run it along the Jacobson gland in his upper lip to see if she’s ready.” This hind was ready....
...From Mr William Jacobson....
...Like most middle-class professionals, Professor Martin Jarvis, a psychologist specialising in tobacco dependence at University College London, is a non-smoker....
...James Burke, who is a few weeks away from graduating from London’s Central Saint Martins, joined the site in November and promptly sold one of his drawings to Bernard Jacobson, a Mayfair gallery whose artists...
...KALOOKI NIGHTS by Howard Jacobson Jonathan Cape ₤17.99, 480 pages Jacobson’s opening riffs about Jewishness are as funny as Woody Allen’s early stand-up routines....
...difficult for a dealer to get into the show – 99 per cent of exhibitors reapply – but this year joining the elite are Timothy Taylor from London (who will be showing Jasper Johns, Philip Guston and Agnes Martin...
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