ours after Donald Trump announced his so-called “Muslim ban” in 2017, Brad Karp dispatched dozens of lawyers from his elite New York firm to airports, where they worked through the night to file emergency peti tions on behalf of stranded travellers. Less than adecade later, the Paul Weiss chief was on his metaphorical knees in the Oval Office, inking a dubious deal to do free work for the Trump ad…
Believe me, this is a nailed-on Booker winner T °1 Like last year, I''ve read the longlist Giles = Coren ops, 1 did it again. I read the whole of the Booker longlist (13 books, 4,000 pages, 1.2 million words — roughly five Moby Dicks) in seven weeks, just like last year, so 1 can reveal the shortlist to you ahead of Tuesday''s announcement and tell you who will win on November 9. This year it’s ea…
‘Music expresses that which cannot be said, and on which it is impossible to be silent. —vicTor Huco A Contralto With a Cause Voice of a Century By Anthony Tommasini Penguin Press, 352 pages, $35 By BARBARA JEPSON ARIAN ANDERSON was a tall, resolute woman who, accord- ing to her prestigious agent, the impresario Sol Hurok, “walked with the grace of a queen.” Her wide-ranging contralto— the lowest …
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Can our children still prosper in the age of AI? Daniel Susskind offers a sobering yet nuanced picture of how the young can adapt, writes Camilla Cavendish he title of Daniel Susskind’s engaging book asks the question every parent is pondering. His answer is unsettling: “we cannot be sure the advice we gave our children last year still works for the next.” Thank- fully, he goes on to offer hope th…
When in Venice A far-reaching account of over three decades of the Biennale captures the thinking behind the world's oldest art festival. By Jackie Wullschldger he tide of change is surging, the map of Europe is redrawn, and at the 1993 Venice Biennale artists ride the wave with a spirited seriousness and exuberant originality not seen here since the end of the second world war. Though painted red…
ours after Donald Trump announced his so-called “Muslim ban” in 2017, Brad Karp dispatched dozens of lawyers from his elite New York firm to airports, where they worked through the night to file emergency peti- tions on behalf of stranded travellers. Less than a decade later, the Paul Weiss chief was on his metaphorical knees in the Oval Office, inking a dubious deal to do free work for the Trump …
alt il gl? het ia ‘As a man who has always had the wand’ring ways / Now I''m reaching back for yesterdays.” —FrRANK SINATRA Rock® By Chuck Klosterman Da Capo, 336 pages, $32.50 By Davip KireY HAT IF THE Velvet Under- ground’s first album, “The Velvet Underground & Nico” (1967), had not been a com- mercial flop but became instead the biggest-selling and most culturally influential record in history…
Francis Fukuyama The “Last Man”, still standing In the Realm of the Last Man. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus a Giroux; 304 pages; $29. Profile; £20 W JHEN FRANCIS FUKUYAMA 40-year-old political scient lished “The End of History and Man” in 1992, the book was met claim. With the collapse of the So ion and end of the cold war, the w reached “the end point of mankin logical evolution” with “the …
All about his mother Magdalena Miecznicka on a remarkable story of one woman's rise from Russian refugee to the summit of French high society Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrére, translated by John Lambert Fern Press £20/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux $33, 416 pages n 1958, when the then 28-year-old Héléne Carrére d ’Encausse was fly- ing back to France from Uzbekistan, the Afghan pilot of the plane landed un…
