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...Meanwhile Korean rapper Kim Nam-Joon, lead singer of the wildly popular boy band BTS, recommends that his fans read The Metamorphosis, Kafka’s tale of the transformation of salesman Gregor Samsa into a giant...
...Yet I remember the keen satisfaction of a teenage summer spent reading all of Jane Austen’s novels, or of autumn 2023, when I re-read Vikram Seth’s 1,349-page A Suitable Boy (1993), feeling a bittersweet...
...Her body of work includes short story collections such as Gold Boy, Emerald Girl (2010, set in China), acclaimed novels from The Vagrants (2009) to The Book of Goose (2023), and a haunting memoir of her...
...Now, she joins novelists like Michael Chabon (The Wonder Boys) and the late Martin Amis (The Information) in mining the promising terrain of the failed writer....
...Nilanjana Roy is an FT Weekend columnist Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Mockney wheeler dealer “Del Boy” Trotter was known for his French language faux pas and council flat in Nelson Mandela House, London....
...One invitation to start: Join DD’s Arash Massoudi and the FT’s Henry Mance for an exclusive conversation with Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and Flash Boys, on the rise and fall of FTX...
...It began last Friday night when the company behind ChatGPT suddenly — and without any real explanation — sacked its founder, CEO and all-round poster boy for the generative AI revolution Sam Altman....
...Ruti Munder’s husband Avraham is still being held hostage, while her son Roy was murdered during the Hamas onslaught....
...We soon feel close to these funny, loveable, anxious boys, feel the weight of worries on them....
A workshop on language-learning software has demonstrated its use as an aid — not a threat — to some human novelists
...And the Mumbai-based novelist and poet Jerry Pinto pulls off a funny and wry coming-of-age novel, The Education of Yuri, about a boy yearning to be a writer in 1980s Bombay....
...Firefighters told the inspectors the sector was a “boys’ club” and they feared reprisals if they reported bad behaviour....
...Through tales of pirates or park benches, dancing bears and daring wenches, boys’ adventures and talking frogs, the famous believe they can connect with sprogs....
...Early on — hilariously — we hear a question from radio host Roy Plomley on an ancient edition of Desert Island Discs. “Your childhood was a little unsettled, wasn’t it?”...
...I think it was also in 2014, when Michael Lewis came out with his book, Flash Boys [about the competitive advantage sought by high-frequency financial traders]....
...Taking pity on the old boy’s struggle, Victoria advanced to the edge to accept his homage....
...Madonna-like mothers, always with a boy child, as in one piece featuring the god Krishna with his foster mother Yashoda....
...Roy Niederhoffer’s flagship fund has returned 44.5 per cent up to the end of June....
...Deutsche Bank profit buoyed by rising interest rates (FT) MEPs to call for greater powers for Brussels to curb EU spyware use (FT) Deceptive fund name crackdown puts investment managers on edge (FT) Old boys...
...Move over Roy Keane, there’s a new enforcer in town, and his name is Robby Greengold, CFA....
...Law firm Pallas Partners has hired a team from Boies Schiller & Flexner including Duane Loft, who will lead its new practice in New York, and Melissa Kelley, who joins as counsel....
...“We have twice as many female ancestors as male ones,” writes Reeves, quoting psychologist Roy Baumeister: “There is usually a penile surplus.”...
...Letter in response to this article: Dinosaur bosses deserve a hearing in WFH debate / From Roy A Massey, London NW1, UK...
...(Wired) — “Fixed income traders are frat boys. Equities traders are better educated.” (eFinancial Careers) — The rise and fall of Cathie Wood....
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