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...Cory Booker called on his fellow New Jersey senator to resign on Tuesday, days after federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment alleging Robert Menendez accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes...
...In Fanatic Heart, his approach is fictional, although, as in his Booker Prize-winning Schindler’s Ark, he adheres strictly to the known facts....
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...Roberts was similarly transformed....
...There were the great personalities in publishing — Liz Calder and Robert McCrum creating superb fiction lists; the launching of Bloomsbury and other independents....
...Last year’s guests included Booker-winners Bernardine Evaristo and Shehan Karunatilaka and US novelist Gabrielle Zevin....
...His previous novels, The Gift of Rain (2007) and the Booker-shortlisted The Garden of Evening Mists (2012), dealt with the Japanese wartime occupation of Malaya and its aftermath....
...Unhedged podcast 🎧: Ethan Wu and the FT’s US financial commentator Robert Armstrong discuss the troubles in commercial property and the possible implications for the broader economy....
...This year’s Booker Prize shortlist includes six authors across five different nationalities, and the oldest author ever to be shortlisted....
...It later became a film starring Julia Roberts as Gilbert, opposite Javier Bardem, playing the man who became her second husband....
...Its president, Kevin Roberts, then made an unknowingly prescient offer. “If things go south for you at Fox News there’s always a place for you at Heritage.” matthew.garrahan@ft.com...
...Group same-store sales, which include operations in Ireland and central Europe along with the Booker wholesale business, were up 7.9 per cent....
...Robert Frost’s proposition that “fences make good neighbours”, in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall”, was tested in unprecedented ways in March 2020 when Britain was locked down and the entire country was obliged...
...Act of Oblivionby Robert Harris, Hutchinson Heinemann £22/Harper $28.99 For his latest historical thriller, Robert Harris turns his attention to the aftermath of the civil wars of the 17th century — and...
...It’s taken Eleanor Catton 10 years to follow up on her Booker Prize winning novel of 2013, The Luminaries. Fortunately, her latest offering, Birnam Wood, begins with a bang, quite literally....
...President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the autocratic successor of the independence leader Robert Mugabe, will seek a second term after a campaign of skulduggery and intimidation....
...Heart-wrenching but brimming with life, Tomb of Sand won the International Booker Prize, and is a lasting joy....
...In 1960 she arrived in England, one of a group of Australian migrants which included Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries and Clive James....
...It seems this year’s Booker jury has also discovered the pleasures of the short novel — Claire Keegan’s resonant Small Things Like These and Alan Garner’s Treacle Walker are both on the shortlist this year...
...The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941 by Robert Kagan (Knopf) A comprehensive history of America’s rise to global superpower, from would-be neutral player to self-appointed...
...Books The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist, announced this week, showcases novels based on real-life events, from Robert Mugabe’s dictatorship to the Magdalene Laundries abuses....
...In 2013, when his Booker Prize shortlisted novel Harvest was published, the British novelist Jim Crace said he was retiring....
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