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...The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms by Olivier Roy, translated Cynthia Schoch and Trista Selous, Hurst £20, 232 pages Ivan Krastev is an FT contributing editor, chair of the...
...First with “Roy”, a tribute to the late trumpeter and flugelhornist Roy Hargrove, that combined sorrow and warmth....
...He collected artefacts of dubious provenance: the skull of Robert the Bruce, the musket of Rob Roy....
...Prestowitz names Maurice Greenberg, ex-head of the insurance giant AIG, and Fred Smith, the boss of FedEx, the US parcel delivery company, among the corporate titans that played this game....
...In the US, educationalists drew up lists of books that would spark creativity in children, from Dr Seuss to Maurice Sendak, and novels that would help troubled teenagers to navigate adolescence....
...by Olivier Roy, Hurst, £14.99, 192 pages Letter in response to this review: Heresy is nothing new, but this time it’s different / From David J Critchley, Winslow, Bucks, UK...
...Empire of Enchantment: The Story of Indian Magic, by John Zubrzycki, Hurst & Company, RRP£25, 384 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Nilanjana Roy is the author of ‘The Wildings’ and ‘The Hundred Names of Darkness’ and lives in Delhi @nilanjanaroy Photograph: Dreamstime...
...The writer is the FT’s Paris bureau chief Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion by Nadia Marzouki, Duncan McDonnell and Olivier Roy.Hurst £25...
...“He’s a very prickly guy and a very proud man, prepared to take his last years and much of his fortune to try and prove himself right and the others wrong,” said Roy Smith, a professor at NYU Stern School...
...But it also required intellectual guides — such as Michael Lind, Maurice Glasman, Eric Kaufmann and Jonathan Haidt — who helped me to nail down my inchoate dissatisfaction with modern liberalism....
...Match for match, the only postwar England managers whose stats compare with Ramsey’s (in charge from 1963 to 1974) are the two most recent incumbents: Capello (2008-2012) and current boss Roy Hodgson....
...The tongue-in-cheek ABC series Batman, which premiered in 1966, inherited the heavy lines, bold colours and campy attitude of comic books via Roy Lichtenstein....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...I’ve finished Boris Johnson’s and — as recommended to me by Sir Nicholas Soames — have just started the one by Roy Jenkins....
...“Building brand awareness does not happen overnight – it takes time,” says Marc Gläser, Maurice Lacroix’s chief executive....
...… Remaking a Garden: The Laskett Transformed, by Roy Strong, Frances Lincoln, RRP£30/$50 Sir Roy Strong has reinvented the garden he created in the 1970s with his late wife Julia Trevelyan Oman....
...Groups such as Maurice Glasman’s “Blue Labour” and Philip Blond’s “Red Toryism” have tried to turn their parties in a post-liberal direction, with limited success....
...Roy Foster is the author of ‘Luck and the Irish: A Brief History of Change 1970-2000’ (Penguin)...
...Holy Ignorance: When Religion and Culture Part Ways, by Olivier Roy, Hurst and Co, RRP£20; Columbia University Press, RRP$27.50 Olivier Roy, the outstanding scholar of contemporary religions, has written...
...Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck’s 1905 “Paysage de Banlieue (Suburban Landscape)” broke record prices for the artist when it sold for $20m....
...Maurice Bennett, entrepreneur, for services to the retail industry. Margaret Bent , senior research fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, for services to musicology....
...Maurice Thompson, chairman of investment banking in continental Europe at Citigroup, said: “For Citi, this has been a great model....
...The writer, a professor at Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, is author of Globalised Islam (Hurst 2004)...
...“The big man in the raincoat,” I told my American friend, “the one swaying to the tune of ‘Three Lions on a Shirt’, is Geoff Hurst....
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