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...“If the white man has to die so the black man can live, we’ve returned to the sacrifice of the scapegoat,” the French-Jewish journalist Jean Daniel, a friend of Fanon’s and a supporter of Algerian independence...
...(Puig is name-checked in the book, alongside other gay writers including Edward Albee, Jean Genet and Tennessee Williams.)...
...World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain (Particular Books)A collaboration between a climate expert and a graphic novelist provides an illuminating and original approach to understanding...
...Tim Jeans, a former senior airline executive, said there was “clearly insufficient redundancy and back-up” if a “single misfiled flight plan could bring the whole system down”....
...One I don’t have is Willie Nelson’s – I just went to see him at the Hollywood Bowl....
...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....
...A single glass of crisp Jean Durup Chablis, which he sips through the meal, is obviously an elixir. Any other secrets to a long life? “I sleep a lot,” he says....
...Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère Jonathan Cape, £16.99, 320 pages/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28, 352 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Outside, a young woman in glasses, indigo jeans, nondescript black boots and a big black hoodie pulls up a sleeve to reveal a forearm tattoo of a cowboy hat, confessing herself “a big country-music fan”....
...Willie Walsh, head of the International Air Transport Association, has said it is “disturbing” to see a commercial flight diverted “for clearly bogus reasons”....
...The screenplay was written as New Wave project for François Truffaut, who handed it over to Jean-Luc Godard....
...In a shocking departure from the film, fully-trousered Alessandro Nivola opts not to sport the manly shorts that were such a feature of David Farrar’s original performance....
...Jean-Sébastien Jacques, chief executive of mining group Rio Tinto, said its spending on long-haul could fall by as much as 75 per cent over six months....
...Uncanny Valley: A Memoir , by Anna Wiener, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$13.99/4th Estate, RRP£16.99, 284 pages Elaine Moore is the FT’s deputy Lex editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT...
...“General practice has fallen down the political pecking order,” says Mr Farrar....
...The Topeka School , by Ben Lerner, Granta, RRP£16.99/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, RRP$27, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...“They’re inheriting all the issues that exist in the world,” says Farrar-Rivas. “So they want to look for solutions and participate in those solutions.”...
...Certain American States , by Catherine Lacey, Granta, RRP£12.99/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, RRP$26 We’re talking states of mind, rather than federal states here....
...Now, Now, Louison , by Jean Frémon, translated by Cole Swensen, Les Fugitives, RRP£12 Poet and curator Frémon gives voice to one of the outstanding artists of the 20th century, Louise Bourgeois, in a written...
...Meanwhile, Willie Walsh, boss of British Airways, has lamented the “shocking” lack of progress in Brexit talks....
...Willie Walsh, chief executive of IAG, owner of British Airways and Iberia, said the company would not face any ownership issues as a result of Brexit....
...Bloomberg has the list which includes Levi’s jeans, cranberries, and peanut butter....
...Last year Jean-Marc Janaillac, its chief executive, told the FT that if the company did not change to be more competitive it would “end up like Alitalia”....
...Willie Walsh, IAG’s chief executive, said the initial operations from Barcelona were “just the start”....
...Then we are back in the British Isles: “Willie’s Fatal Visit” as a slow march; “Many’s The Night’s Rest” with harmony singing from all four voices....
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