SATURDAY 19, SEPTEMBER 2026 ; » 2 3 818 | Ebunoluwa [ls A Jungle Full of Lessons-A Review of The Lion Visitor’s Ebunoluwa Johnson Title: The Lion Visitor Author: Ebunoluwa Johnson Year of Publication: 2026 Number of Pages: 101 Category: Fiction # Businessday.ng 03 3 @businessdayng 43 SATURDAY 19, SEPTEMBER 2026 THE LION VISITOR gives the impression of a children’s book. You see it and think, “Oh, …
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 that our children can prosper if they embrace the “…
19 September/20 September 2026 * FT Weekend Books ours after Donald Trump | announced his so-called “Muslim ban”in 2017, Brad Karp dispatched dozens of lawyers from his elite New York firm toairports, where they worked through the night to file emergency peti- tions on behalf of stranded travellers. Lessthanadecade later, the Paul Weiss chief was on his metaphorical knees in the Oval Office, inkin…
Battlefield realism and cosy espionage issiles have been much in the news lately. Even as Kyiv is bombarded, Ukraine's long-range attacks deep into the Rus- sian heartland have exacted a high price. Israel's Iron Dome could not stop Iran from hitting Tel Aviv. But what hap- pens when the deadly projectiles disap- pear — and fall into the wrong hands? In Simon Conway's The British Agent (Michael Jo…
n a literary meet-cute of dreams, the now newly-weds Callum Turner and Dua Lipa first bonded over a book. Chatting in Los Angeles, they realised they had both just finished the first chapter of Hernan Diaz's Trust (2022), a twisty puzzle-box novel that plays with the fiction of finance. “So we're on the same page,” Turner quipped. The anecdote was a sprinkling of stardust on a book already in the …
Diagnosing a Waking Nightmare FICTION SAM SACKS A doctor ata veterans’ home struggles with trauma— his patients’ and his own. HYPNOPOMPIC hallucinations are what specialists call the unreal things people see or hear during the transition from sleep to waking. In Terrence Holt’s debut novel, “Soldiers & Sail- ors” (Liveright, 432 pages, $31.99), the phenomenon offers the only diagnosis Dr. Hal Adam…
Lostin Taiwan Rebecca F Kuang explores her Chinese-American identity in a somewhat insular novel, finds Christian House ew books have captured the febrile publishing debate sur- rounding authenticity quite as dynamically as Rebecca F Kuang’s 2023 satirical novel Yellowface. In it, a white writer steals the manuscript of her friend, a Chinese- American author who has died in extraordinary circumsta…
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When in Venice A far-reaching account of over three decades of the Biennale captures Bd gs AT uaint then, i conjures a los. worl now, yet still its ideas inform Gioni's concerns here: modern. stopias and dystopias; how cule. survives when we “suffer froma surfeit the thinking behind the world's oldest art festival. By Jackie Wullschliger of information and a deficit of mean hetide of change is sur…
Lostin Taiwan Rebecca F Kuang explores her Chinese-American identity in a somewhat insular novel, [finds Christian House ew books have captured the febrile publishing debate sur- rounding authenticity quite as dynamically as Rebecca F Kuang’s 2023 satirical novel Yellowface. In it, a white writer steals the manuscript of her friend, a Chinese- American author who has died in extraordinary circumst…
