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...Taleb clicked instantly with Mark Spitznagel, with whom he founded hedge fund Empirica in 1999....
...Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/425°F/gas mark 7 and line a baking sheet with baking paper....
...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...
...Love Marriageby Monica Ali, Virago £18.99/Scribner $27.99 It’s nearly 20 years since Ali burst on to the literary scene with her debut Brick Lane....
...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....
...Babitz, making her own mark as one of LA’s savviest observers with Slow Days, Fast Company (1977), hid ferocious ambition and a well-honed wit beneath the mask of the artless groupie she never quite was....
...’s Actress (Jonathan Cape RRP£16.99/Norton RRP$26.95, February) and Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty (Picador RRP£16.99/Scribner RRP$26, February)....
...In the past few months, a small punctuation mark sparked a rush of visits to tattoo parlours....
...Mrs Fletcher , by Tom Perrotta, Corsair, RRP£8.99/Scribner, RRP$16.99, 307 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...It marks the long overdue arrival of a new generation of fiction, not only among Native voices, but among the ever-changing American canon itself....
...To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death, by Mark O’Connell, Granta, RRP£12.99/Doubleday, RRP$26.95 Transhumanism — the desire...
...House of Names, by Colm Tóibín, Viking, RRP£18.99/Scribner, RRP$26 The acclaimed Irish novelist retells the story of Clytemnestra....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...Apple’s shares briefly fell below the $90 mark in New York trading for the first time since June 2014, according to Bloomberg data. They ended the day with a 2.4 per cent decline at $90.32....
...Mark Moskowitz at Barclays noted that “…the stock can be attractive to long-term investors if there is any near-term weakness”....
...Doctor Sleep , by Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£19.99/Scribner, RRP$30 King’s excellent sequel to The Shining revisits Danny Torrance, the ghost-haunted boy in his 1977 classic....
...MARK TWAIN: A Life by Ron Powers Scribner £25, 723 pages Every now and then, America produces an itinerant young man on the make, deeply ambitious, self-mythologising, sowing aphorisms like chaff....
...THIS HUMAN SEASON Louise Dean Scribner £12.99, 320 pages The title of Louise Dean’s ambitious second novel refers to the supposed inevitability of men’s involvement with war and violence....
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