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...As well as Herbie Hancock, Buddy Guy, George Benson and Thundercat, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and country singer Alison Krauss reunite for their Grammy-winning duo....
...“To Be a Man”, by Nicole Krauss, is published by Bloomsbury Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Nicole Krauss quotes Marcel Proust’s manifesto on literary creation (Spectrum, FT Weekend, February 27)....
...To Be a Man, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99, 240 pages Although women take the lead roles in these remarkable short stories, a dazzling cast of characters spin in their orbit....
...Philip Lane, the ECB’s chief economist, kicked off the fresh bout of jawboning earlier this month, saying that “the euro-dollar rate does matter”....
...If Ms Lagarde’s nomination passes through the European Council successfully in October, Mr Praet’s successor Philip Lane is likely to be among her most important counsellors....
...Philip Lane looks set to secure the job of replacing Peter Praet as the European Central Bank’s chief economist, becoming the first Irish member of the bank’s top-ranking executive board in the process....
...“Christine Lagarde dramatically increases the influence of Philip Lane,” said Mr Krauss. “She will need technical help. He is dovish and so will she be.”...
...To make up for her lack of technical expertise, she is likely to rely on Philip Lane, the bookish former Irish central bank boss who this summer became the ECB’s chief economist....
...There have also been press reports that Berlin will support Philip Lane, current head of the Irish central bank, to be the next ECB chief economist....
...“This clears the path for Philip Lane to be chief economist, gives the Italians an opportunity to clear up their own mess, undermines the populist argument that the ECB is against Italy,” said Melvyn Krauss...
...Mr Draghi has pushed for Philip Lane, like him a US-educated economist, who is head of Ireland’s central bank, to take over. The chief economist carries clout....
...AUGUST … Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Harper, RRP$27.99 A Tel Aviv-set novel from the author of The History of Love (2005)....
...This month alone Mr Ren agreed to pay $1bn for Krauss Maffee, the German machinery company, and bought a 12 per cent stake in Mercuria that values the Swiss energy trader at more than $3bn....
...It is not a question you could ever ask of Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, the two second-generation Jewish immigrants who came to define Jewish-American writing in recent decades....
...Krauss explains how our universe could have popped into existence out of nothing 13.7bn years ago, without any need to invoke a divine creator....
...At Philips, Stefano Marzano, chief executive of Philips Design, points out that, because we now take music with us wherever we go, it has become more like wallpaper, a background to other activities....
...No modern pianist has said as much on disc about the Hammerklavier sonata as Mitsuko Uchida does in her latest Beethoven CD, Piano Sonatas 28 and 29 (Philips)....
...More recently, some have taken leave of the visual altogether and descended into theory, including Benjamin Buchloh and Rosalind Krauss....
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