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...Left Is Not Woke by Susan Neiman (Polity/Wiley)US philosopher Neiman warns of the dangers of conflating the left with wokeism — and argues that the latter threatens to undermine the goals and guiding principles...
...Dvořák’s Prophecy: And the Vexed Fate of Black Classical Musicby Joseph Horowitz, WW Norton £23.99/$30 In 1893, Czech composer Antonin Dvořák prophesied a “great and noble” future for classical music in...
...A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis Norton, £25, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Oliver Roeder is the FT’s US senior data journalist and author of “Seven Games: A Human History” (WW Norton) Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...In brief: it takes more than lawyers to make a law firm Hogan Lovells Under Susan Bright, regional managing partner since 2013, the firm has instituted innovation across the business, from delivery of legal...
...Underland: A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£20/WW Norton, RRP$27.95 The nature writer ventures into the depths of the earth in this absorbing meditation on the layers of history...
...Peter Burke’s The Polymath (Yale RRP£20, May) is subtitled “A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag”. Does anyone else find that a strange pairing of names?...
...I devoured Mary Norton, Susan Coolidge, Noel Streatfeild. I was certain that I would one day write my own masterpiece....
...A Day in the Life of the Brain: The Neuroscience of Consciousness from Dawn till Dusk, by Susan Greenfield, Allen Lane, RRP£20 Oxford neuroscientist Susan Greenfield is one of the few brain researchers...
...It was eventually secured by the tenacious New York dealer Richard Feigen, who fought off a legal challenge from the famously litigious collector Norton Simon who insisted that he had first refusal....
...Firms including Clifford Chance, Herbert Smith Freehills, Hogan Lovells, Norton Rose Fulbright and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer said they have teams that can advise companies on the implications of Brexit...
...In 1950 he married another Black Mountain student, Susan Weil, but they divorced in 1952 after the birth of their son Christopher....
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...Economics Rules, by Dani Rodrik, OUP, RRP£16.99/WW Norton, RRP$27.95 After the financial crisis, economics is in the doghouse....
...Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.99, 512 pages Antonia Quirke is an FT film critic Photograph: Getty Images...
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work, by Susan Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£16.49/ $27.95 With unprecedented access to the eccentric but often profound personal annotations in the thousands of books...
...The Culinary Imagination: From Myth to Modernity, by Sandra M Gilbert, WW Norton, RRP£20/$29.95, 432 pages The Shape We’re In: How Junk Food and Diets are Shortening Our Lives, by Sarah Boseley, Guardian...
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought, and Work, by Susan Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£16.49/$27.95 With unprecedented access to the eccentric but often profound personal annotations in the thousands of books...
...A panel discussion, organised by Christie’s, explored how a wealthy businessman – specifically the California software entrepreneur Peter Norton – set about forming an admired, cutting-edge contemporary...
...Now grown up, Garner’s hero, Colin, works at Jodrell Bank as an astronomer and Susan has vanished, possibly living in the Pleiades....
...“That would have been unthinkable” at the last two big UN conferences in 2007 and 2009, says Anthony Hobley, head of climate change at Norton Rose, a legal firm....
...Holbein’s sole known autographed portrait of Henry VIII was sold through Agnew’s to Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza in 1935 for £10,000, and Rembrandt’s portrait of his son Titus was acquired by Norton Simon for...
...pages On The State of Egypt: What Caused the Revolution, by Alaa Al Aswany, Canongate e-book, RRP£9.99 The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death, edited by David Shields and Bradford Morrow, WW Norton...
...Top five: Ping-pong joints Spin New York With backing from the likes of Susan Sarandon and Edward Norton, Spin’s 2009 opening symbolised ping pong’s new-found celebrity appeal....
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