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...Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England by Anne L Murphy (Princeton) The story of how the 18th-century Bank of England became — in the words of Adam Smith — “a great...
...The cast — from PR mogul Edward L Bernays to dictator Carlos Castillo Armas — are mostly historical but in Vargas Llosa’s expert hands, they are alive and kicking....
...Vargas Llosa’s latest novel opens in a New York PR agency, where we meet Edward L Bernays, Sigmund Freud’s nephew and the world’s first PR mogul....
...as “M”, and her male house guest, an artist known throughout as “L”....
...Second Place, by Rachel Cusk, Faber, RRP£14.99, 224 pages/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$12.99, 192 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Ingestion of a different kind features in The Most Dangerous Man in America by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L Davis (John Murray RRP£14.99, April; already available in the US), which relates an episode in...
...The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World, by William L Silber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24/$29.95 Silber’s book is mostly about silver in America, rather than...
...LGIM unveiled the L&G Future World Gender in Leadership UK index fund in May, the UK’s first gender-orientated fund, which aims to channel more funds to companies that score well for gender diversity....
...Or, as Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, puts it, unlike many artists who reference their early groundbreaking work ad nauseam, “Lorna is not in a constant state of looking backwards...
...He reflects on a retreat he attended under Jean Vanier, creator of L’Arche — the global movement that cares for those with learning disabilities....
...Hystopia, by David Means, Faber, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$26 Means, known for his short stories, has written a powerful, multi-layered debut novel set in an alternate version of the 1960s...
...The writer is the FT’s US managing editor Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerationsd by Thomas L Friedman; Allen Lane £25/Farrar, Straus and Giroux $28...
...… The Medici Boy, by John L’Heureux, Astor & Blue, RRP£14.99/$24.95 A tremendous historical tale evoking the creative fervour of Renaissance Florence....
...… 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....
...His first book, and his only novel, L’impuro folle (1974) dealt with the case that inspired Freud to write about paranoia....
...“Once considered clunky and unattractive, the classic form has been revived with an appealing softness,” says Rebecca Farrar-Hockley, the buying and creative director at Kurt Geiger....
...Recently, the aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, and the banking group, BNP Paribas, have joined existing players such as the cosmetics group, L’Oréal, and the consultants, IBM, in launching global games for...
...In his 1973 book, Awakenings, Sacks himself described victims of a sleeping sickness springing to life through music (and the then-new drug L-Dopa)....
...He may be too loyal to compete against L&G, a leader in the bulk annuity sector, of which he has been chief executive for 14 years....
...collector 41 (40) Don and Mera Rubell - Miami collectors 42 (94) John Baldessari - artist 43 (44) Paul Schimmel - chief curator at LAMOCA 44 NEW Robert Mnuchin and Dominique Levy - dealer/galleris, L&...
...THE WORLD IS FLAT by Thomas L....
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