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...The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the CIA, and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Stephen Coll (Allen Lane/Penguin Press)A “definitive” account of the decades-long ties between the US and Saddam...
...As an editorial assistant and in his spare time, he rubs shoulders with such figures as James Baldwin, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Angela Carter, Sigrid Nunez, Stephen Spender, Philip Roth and Derek Walcott....
...We Need to Talk about Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years by Stephen D King (Yale) With inflation back from the dead, the former HSBC group chief economist cuts through a history of misunderstandings...
...Cheryl’s Destiniesby Stephen Sexton, Penguin Press £9.99 The follow-up to If All the World and Love Were Young, which won the Forward Prize for first collection in 2019, is a witty, compassionate act of...
...James Farrar, general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union, claimed that the legal action was a “failed collateral attack” on the Supreme Court ruling by Uber....
...Stephen Morrall, a partner at Hunters Law, added that additional costs are likely to be borne by customers....
...Stephen CameronCEO and Chairman, Nucleus HoldingsLondon EC1, UK...
...Stephen King’s new novel Later (Hard Case Crime, March) looks set to be one of the highlights of the spring season for many readers....
...Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, a research charity based in London, said: “It’s very unusual to go through a vaccine trial and not to have to pause it.”...
...But his mind was changed by two scientists who also happened to be at Davos — Jeremy Farrar of the Wellcome Trust and Richard Hatchett from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations....
...He could continue shaking his fist at the west, or he could brush away cold war cobwebs and recognise the challenge of Russia’s friend and ally China, Philip Stephens writes....
...(FT) How to get to Covid-Zero with $8bn Business can play a powerful role in the pandemic’s only viable exit strategy, writes Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust....
...The Sun on My Head , by Geovani Martins, translated by Julia Sanches, Faber, RRP£10.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$22 Martins’ literary debut — a collection of 13 short stories set in the favelas of...
...Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, two political theorists, dissect what went wrong after the fall of the Berlin Wall, ostensibly liberalism’s greatest triumph....
...America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of US Primacy , by Stephen Walt, Farrar Strauss Giroux, $38...
...He’s still alive, Stephen said.” Collected Stories , by Susan Sontag, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP£27, 320 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Essays by Marilynne Robinson, Little, Brown RRP£18.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux RRP$27, 336 pages Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray Allen Lane RRP£17.99, 176 pages Join our online book group on Facebook...
...Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life, by Peter Godfrey-Smith, William Collins, RRP£20/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 272 pages From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution...
...“Our aspiration is to bring about 20 projects to fruition,” said Stephen Caddick, Wellcome’s head of innovation....
...There are parallels between how Stephen Graham reads the city in Vertical and how the villains in Manaugh’s book understand it....
...Published in the US in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. John Sutherland is author of ‘Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography’ (Penguin) Photograph: Lizzie and Matthew Spender Collection...
...FT reviewer Stephen Cave called it “lucid and informed” on everything from genomics to the blockchain, but readers will have to reconvene in 20 years to decide just how prescient he is....
...Rachel Cusk’s Outline (Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux) falls into neither camp....
...Patrick Vallance President of Pharmaceuticals R&D, GlaxoSmithKline Mikael Dolsten President of Worldwide Research and Development, Pfizer Martin Murphy Chief Executive, Syncona Partners Dr Jeremy Farrar...
...Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit , by Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber, Princeton, RRP£24.95/$35 We get the banking systems we deserve or, more precisely,...
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