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...Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Rothby Keiron Pim, Granta £25/$35 “I paint the portrait of the age,” Joseph Roth once claimed....
...For example, Carl Icahn, a veteran activist investor who last year won a board seat for one of his nominees at gene-sequencing group Illumina in the first significant proxy battle to play out under the new...
...Freshfields has hired Schulte Roth & Zabel’s Gayle Klein as a litigation partner in New York....
...And he explores that through Carl and Yaya....
Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads
...Some wealthy residents, including financier Carl Icahn, are not waiting on the answer. They have fled to low-tax Florida....
...What about the “privilege” of his childhood friend Carl, who took an overdose, Paul asks?...
...Karen Kamensek conducts surely and Anthony Roth Costanzo repeats his eerie, evocative countertenor singing in the title role: a little weak at the low end but strong and affecting higher up....
...The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife 1965-2005, by Zachary Leader, Jonathan Cape, RRP£35/ Knopf, RRP$40 This second and final volume picks up with Bellow now 49 years old and seemingly at the height...
...As Leader compellingly argues, “love” and “strife” contended around Bellow even at his funeral — later fictionalised by his friend Philip Roth in Everyman....
...RRP$28 In this second collection of the novelist’s essays, reviews and columns, Zadie Smith’s eclectic interests are on show, with pieces on everything from Justin Bieber to race and identity, Philip Roth...
...“Tragic to see how the UK is lost in post-referendum chaos,” tweeted Carl Bildt, former Swedish prime minister....
...In further reading , Carl Richards' short "four-step guide to ranting productively" , in the New York Times is on the mark....
...Douglas Roth, the centre-right chair of the council, calls the populists “not serious” for their constant linking of everything to immigration....
...Carl Craig Versus (InFiné) In Versus a classical orchestra covers tracks by techno DJ Carl Craig....
...Zachary Wingard, the mechanical engineer who co-conceived the contraption, tells me the aim is to offset the recoil and weight of tomorrow’s higher-performance weapons....
...The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachary Leader, Jonathan Cape, RRP£35 / Knopf, RRP$40 The first of a projected two-volume life of the US literary titan....
...The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964, by Zachary Leader, Jonathan Cape, RRP£35/Knopf $40, 812 pages Photograph: Richard Meek/Getty Images...
...Assailed by activists, many companies are entering settlement talks and agreeing to give them board seats, as Hertz did last week with corporate raider Carl Icahn....
...I have turned to Philip Roth, knowing he hardly ever disappoints....
...“Many activists believe that the popularity of the strategy will lead to lower returns,” says Marc Weingarten, partner at the law firm Schulte Roth & Zabel....
...“Is it good, appropriate national policy to permit Carl Icahn to scream at one company after another to try and get them to do something that will create profits for Carl Icahn?”...
...When I’m reading Updike I feel like Angstrom, or reading Roth I’m like Zuckerman. Who are your literary influences? I’m inspired by great writing and whatever I’m reading inspires me....
...“Activism in general has become more serious,” says David Rosewater, partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel, who has advised several activist hedge funds....
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