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...And once again, FT readers sent me on a non-fiction buying spree — on their advice, I picked up Lea Ypi’s Free about growing up under communism in Albania, Steven Simon’s prescient Grand Delusion on half...
...Throw in a rarity on this side of the Atlantic, Roy Harris’s short, quick-moving Symphony No 3, and this concert was one of Rattle’s best inventions....
.... — Simon Mundy Join Ravi Menon, Roy Swan, Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad and FT writers covering responsible business and investment at the Moral Money Summit Asia on September 6-7, in Singapore or online....
...Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama (Simon & Schuster/Ecco) During Covid-19 lockdowns, the British historian and FT contributing editor was inspired to examine how...
...Meanwhile, Shiv Roy, now reinstated in real life as Sarah Snook, flaunts her new pulling-power in a version by Kip William of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show at London’s 900-seat...
...Art of the Everyday, an exploration of the ‘still life’ genre, featuring works by artists including Andy Warhol, Fernand Léger and Roy Lichtenstein....
...Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama (Simon & Schuster/Ecco) During Covid-19 lockdowns, the British historian and FT contributing editor was inspired to examine...
...(All three are on the board of the Foundation, together with their half-brother; Benjamin and Simon are involved in its day-to-day running and projects.) His family would often join him on set....
...Elizabeth I’s entry into London on the eve of her coronation in January 1559 has been described by Roy Strong as the moment of invention for a “walkabout monarch”, the apparently effortless managing of the...
...And here is a 2014 paper by Ankur Pareek of Bucknell University and Roy Zuckerman of Rutgers that looked at hedge fund managers and discovered that “trustworthy”-looking ones on average do worse but attract...
...And Kate Rhodes’ The Brutal Tide (Simon & Schuster, £8.99) is the latest in her psychologically truthful Ben Kitto series, with the Scilly Isles community having to deal with murderous secrets from its past...
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor I don’t understand why the British-Palestinian writer Isabella Hammad’s work isn’t more loudly celebrated....
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...robert.shrimsley@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Please, let’s have no more Tory survival tips / From Roy Simpson, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK...
...Simon Godwin’s gorgeous, chic staging at the National Theatre handles this intoxicating mix of light and dark adroitly....
...One outlier was Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s Lost, a Kolkata-set thriller that charts a female journalist’s investigation into the disappearance of a young theatre actor accused of Maoist terrorism....
...So I think I’m gonna have to go with Simon Case, who, you know, is in fact, still in position, even though he’s on sick leave....
...So Roy hopped on the subway and went up to see it....
...Tailoring aficionado and founder of Permanent Style Simon Crompton explains how these hours add up: “Michael has basically gone back to square one to refine his process, which very few tailors ever do....
...This article has been amended since original publication to include the Bradford City stadium fire of 1985 Follow Simon on Twitter @KuperSimon and email him at simon.kuper@ft.com Data visualisation by...
...Simon Schama deep history in hawaii “In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers perished twenty years ago” wrote Mark Twain, in unexpectedly fragrant tone, of the four months he spent in Hawaii in...
...We’ve already had Roy Alexander Weise’s Afrofuturist-inspired RSC production and in July comes Simon Godwin’s National Theatre version, starring Katherine Parkinson and John Heffernan....
...“The debt ceiling increase has not been signed into law yet . . . but it seems like the market is dismissing any potential risk of default,” said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies....
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