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...The veteran Everett attempts an audacious rewriting of Mark Twain, and delivers a story bristling with atmosphere, sadness and sly wit....
...The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life by Clare Carlisle (Allen Lane/Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Carlisle’s magisterial biography explores the many facets of George Eliot’s radical life and work...
...Whatever one thinks of Klein’s political views, time will tell if her arguments hit their mark....
...Farrar warned that the question of vaccine efficacy was “not just a problem for South Africa”....
...Tim Farrar, an industry analyst, had this to say at the FT’s Summit about the future of Amazon’s Project Kuiper, which hopes to challenge Starlink: “Unless Starlink proves within the next 2-3 years that...
...Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton, Granta £20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28, 432 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Takeda has said approval of its dengue fever vaccine in Indonesia marks a big step towards the company’s goal of creating a global vaccine business that would compete with larger rivals such as GSK, Sanofi...
...Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraineby Mark Galeotti, Osprey £25 Mark Galeotti, one of the sharpest observers of Russian security affairs, began writing this book before Vladimir Putin launched his invasion...
...In 1977, just months before his death, Robert Lowell wrote an essay for Salmagundi magazine in an issue published to mark his 60th birthday....
...Governments are still not anticipating events, acting early enough, or working together on “anywhere near the scale” required, as Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, says....
...(1989) came out as a book of like title, though missing the question mark....
..., Farrar, Straus and Giroux $30/Bloomsbury £20, 480 pages Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...One million Covid deaths were recorded in the past two and a half months alone, yet it took nine months to reach the 1m death mark....
...After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made by Ben Rhodes, Bloomsbury £20, 384 pages Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal by George Packer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux $27/Johnathan Cape...
...This One Sky Day, by Leone Ross, Faber RRP£14.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (under the title ‘Popisho’) RRP$16.99, 480 pages...
...Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, said the death toll was likely to be “much higher” than the figures suggested....
...Jeremy Farrar, thank you very much. Pleasure....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Scientists emphasised pauses are a routine part of drug development and do not necessarily imply longer term question marks over the efficacy and safety of a drug....
...Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare Thomas Rid, Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP £25/$30 Propaganda, lies, forgery and deception are weapons that can be...
...For Gray & Farrar, a Mayfair-based matchmaking service whose clients pay £15,000 for an annual membership, the Brexit puns were too good to resist....
...Watch our interview with Wellcome Trust’s Jeremy Farrar on the search and the lessons learned so far from the pandemic....
...World’s Queer Frontiers (Profile RRP£25/Farrar, Straus & Giroux RRP$30, May)....
...Mark Kessel Chairman,Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND),Geneva, Switzerland...
...The writer is director of the Wellcome Trust Letter in response to this article: Diagnostics can minimise the overuse of antibiotics / From Mark Kessel, Geneva, Switzerland...
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