Stefan Dercon, 2022, C Hurst & Co Publishers; 9781787385627
Subject: Economics
Source: Financial Times
Review: Stefan Dercon, a Belgian-British economist at Oxford university and an international development practitioner, is the latest to try to crack the mystery. The result is an important book, Gambling on Development, both scholarly and grounded in experience. It may come as close as any to answering this critical question.Its thesis is brutally simple. "The defining feature of a development bargain is ...Read More
Gambling on development: why some countries win and others lose
Stefan Dercon, a Belgian-British economist at Oxford university and an international development practitioner, is the latest to try to crack the mystery. The result is an important book, Gambling on Development, both scholarly and grounded in experience. It may come as close as any to answering this critical question.Its thesis is brutally simple. "The defining feature of a development bargain is a commitment by those with the power to shape politics, the economy and society, to striving for growth and development," writes Dercon.Growth happens, in other words, when elites try to bring it about. To do so, they must gamble on increasing the size of the economic pie rather than carving up the one that already exists. This is risky. Their gamble may fail and they may be blamed. Or it may succeed and they may be pushed from power by new entrants.The idea of an "elite bargain" may seem blindingly obvious. It is not. Dercon's insight came after meetings in 2013 when he was chief economist of the UK's now defunct Department for International Development, first with officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo and then with those from Ethiopia. He came away thinking that, for all their fine words, DRC officials were not serious about development, whereas those from Ethiopia, though they spoke in more unorthodox terms, meant what they said.
Lisa Taddeo, 2022, Bloomsbury Publishing; 9781526653178
Subject: Fiction
Source: Financial Times
Review: In Ghost Stories, the female characters seem to have internalised the misogyny, as did those in Three Women. "A Suburban Weekend" focuses on the competition between two female friends. In one passage, Fern assesses their looks. "Fern was skinnier than Liv, but Liv was blond and tall and her breasts were enormous and thrillingly spaced. Liv could have been called chubby in certain circumstances, in...Read More
Ghost lover
In Ghost Stories, the female characters seem to have internalised the misogyny, as did those in Three Women. "A Suburban Weekend" focuses on the competition between two female friends. In one passage, Fern assesses their looks. "Fern was skinnier than Liv, but Liv was blond and tall and her breasts were enormous and thrillingly spaced. Liv could have been called chubby in certain circumstances, in jeans or leggings for example, or at power yoga." Some of the descriptions are oblique. In one scene Taddeo describes how "a skinny girl in a leather skirt talked to a girl in a beautiful backless sundress. They might have woken up in filthy apartments. Perhaps their mothers didn't believe in them. Perhaps their fathers had just died. Perhaps there had been a quiet abortion down on Maiden Lane." Perhaps, perhaps . . . perhaps they had perfectly nice homes and personal lives? In another, she writes that "even when you stop wanting to learn, there is yet a greater boredom you can feel with life. Boredom is perhaps not the right word, but I don't know the word in English." If the writer is unable to find the right word, God knows what the reader is meant to do. There are intriguing set-ups, such as the woman who has started a dating service called Ghost Lover (lending the story and book its name), which writes electronic correspondence on behalf of female clients to their crushes. Or "Forty-Two", which follows a single woman in her forties dating in a New York scene obsessed with youth - yet that story and the collection as a whole are drenched in ennui. "Tonight there was a wedding in goddamned Brooklyn?.?.?. In New York the things you hate are the things you do." The uniformity of the tone starts to feel relentless. "Maid Marian", in which a woman yearns for her lover, is perhaps the one exception. This story felt alive, mainly because the protagonist wanted something - or someone. It is a striking contrast with the monotonal nihilism of the other stories. "The reason none of the men stuck was because Noni had never come unstuck from Harry?.?.?. She might take it even further, in her most transparent hours, and admit that the reason she was not a famous documentarian was because of Harry, too?.?.?. Instead of focusing on her work, instead of giving all of herself to her vision, she lived in the shadows of the past." This character hankered after a meaningful connection. And after reading this collection, so did I.
Review: "Good Pop, Bad Pop" is a tour through the contents of Cocker's loft. Our visit to his personal junkyard is prompted by an unspecified requirement on the 58-year-old's part to sort through the mementoes and work out what to throw away or keep. (He has no idea why the gum is there: it gets binned.)The result is a droll, jumble sale-like memoir of the formation of a gloriously unlikely British rock s...Read More
Good pop, bad pop: an inventory
"Good Pop, Bad Pop" is a tour through the contents of Cocker's loft. Our visit to his personal junkyard is prompted by an unspecified requirement on the 58-year-old's part to sort through the mementoes and work out what to throw away or keep. (He has no idea why the gum is there: it gets binned.)The result is a droll, jumble sale-like memoir of the formation of a gloriously unlikely British rock star. The anecdotes triggered by each objet trouv? provide a pick-and-mix account of his band Pulp's rise to glory as one of Britpop's Big Three alongside Blur and Oasis in the 1990s.Of that triumvirate, Cocker and his Pulp bandmates were the hardest to pin down. They were northern, like Oasis, but also had art-school links, like Blur. They were old hands, not newcomers, having toiled for years in indie obscurity before breaking through. Cocker was in his thirties in 1995 when they had their first hit single with "Common People", an effervescent anthem that managed to distil the messy clutter of British life - class, inequality, hypocrisy, sex, wit, resentment - into six perfect minutes of pop music.
Review: On June 22 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was shot dead on the steps of his Belgravia home as he returned from unveiling a plaque to the employees of the Great Eastern Railway who had died during the Great War. A crowd gave chase to his murderers, two members of the Irish Republican Army, who returned police fire in scenes of pandemonium. This vivid episode opens Great Hatred, a pacy new ...Read More
Great hatred: the assassination of field marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP
On June 22 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP was shot dead on the steps of his Belgravia home as he returned from unveiling a plaque to the employees of the Great Eastern Railway who had died during the Great War. A crowd gave chase to his murderers, two members of the Irish Republican Army, who returned police fire in scenes of pandemonium. This vivid episode opens Great Hatred, a pacy new account of the Wilson murder by journalist Ronan McGreevy. One hundred years later, that murder is one of a number of events being commemorated during the centenary of the Irish Civil War. Quite how this will play out, with the uneasy governing coalition of parties descended from the Civil War divide, the rise of Sinn F?in, and continued Anglo-Irish tensions over the Northern Ireland protocol, remains to be seen. "Shared history", the watchword of the recent "Decade of Centenaries", will be difficult in this context. The third British MP ever to be assassinated, Wilson had an eventful and distinguished military career that saw him rise from Sandhurst reject to chief of the imperial general staff. Though he was globally active, Ireland remained a touchstone for Wilson, who had been born to a minor Anglo-Irish gentry family in Longford with strong Ulster roots. Losing Ireland meant losing the empire, Wilson feared. (As it turns out, he wasn't entirely wrong.) Before the first world war, Wilson worked to block home rule for Ireland. After the war, as senior military adviser to the cabinet, he lobbied for hardline measures to deal with the IRA "murder gang". Prime minister Lloyd George's eventual settlement with Sinn F?in through the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 was thus a grave disappointment. Wilson retired from military life in February 1922 and was returned as Ulster Unionist MP for North Down two days later. As military adviser to Northern Ireland's government, he called for Britain to reconquer Ireland, and was associated with the Special Powers Act, a vicious assault on the civil liberties of northern nationalists. All of this made Wilson a hate figure to the new Irish Free State and its anti-Treatyite opponents alike - a "violent Orange partisan" in the words of the Irish republican commander Michael Collins. While McGreevy does not quite provide the smoking gun to the long-debated question of whether Collins ordered Wilson's murder, he does effectively chart the history of IRA attempts to assassinate members of the British cabinet, which helps to make sense of the roots of this sensational attack. Wilson's murderers were quickly apprehended and identified as Reginald Dunne and Joseph O'Sullivan, both born in England of parents with Irish heritage. One of McGreevy's strengths is to bring more light to these men: born to upwardly mobile immigrant families, both were privately educated and had family links to the British military. In particular, Dunne, who served in the Irish Guards, emerges as a complex character. Prior to the assassination he was sent white feathers - symbols of cowardice - by anti-Treatyite women, suspicious of his ties to Collins and the Free State government. At a heated meeting in a Holborn pub on June 21, Dunne declared he would "do something". Was this the trigger for the decision to assassinate Wilson the next day? McGreevy leaves us guessing. Two days after Wilson's state funeral, the Free State government (under pressure from London and with British-supplied artillery) opened fire on republicans occupying buildings in central Dublin. The Irish Civil War had begun. Dunne and O'Sullivan were hanged in August 1922. Within hours, Wilson's ancestral home, Currygrane House, was burnt down by the IRA. This was just one of almost 300 country houses destroyed by arson during the Irish Revolution. The "big houses" of the largely Protestant Anglo-Irish landed gentry gave employment to local people and were frequently of architectural significance. But they were also physical symbols of a history of colonisation and expropriation of land from the Catholic masses who made up the tenantry. During the war of independence, British forces were frequently billeted in big houses. Their campaign of vicious reprisal against local populations across Ireland is another factor explaining why so many big houses were destroyed from 1920 to 1923.
David Santos Donaldson, 2022, Amistad; 9780063159556
Subject: Fiction
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: In David Santos Donaldson's debut, "Greenland," Kip Starling, a young, gay black Englishman of Caribbean descent has locked himself in a basement study in a frantic attempt to complete a novel. His book, whose chapters are interwoven into Kip's narration, is about E.M. Forster's real-life love affair with an Egyptian tram conductor named Mohammed el Adl....Read More
Greenland
In David Santos Donaldson's debut, "Greenland," Kip Starling, a young, gay black Englishman of Caribbean descent has locked himself in a basement study in a frantic attempt to complete a novel. His book, whose chapters are interwoven into Kip's narration, is about E.M. Forster's real-life love affair with an Egyptian tram conductor named Mohammed el Adl.
Review: There is no shortage of competition when it comes to books tackling the issue of Big Tech monopolies. How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation - and How to Strike Back is another one, yes, but one that finds its niche in taking aim at one of the core defences of Silicon Valley, that regulation - or the "wrong" regulation, as the companies would have it - would stifle American innovation. (And if you d...Read More
How big-tech barons smash innovation - and how to strike back
There is no shortage of competition when it comes to books tackling the issue of Big Tech monopolies. How Big-Tech Barons Smash Innovation - and How to Strike Back is another one, yes, but one that finds its niche in taking aim at one of the core defences of Silicon Valley, that regulation - or the "wrong" regulation, as the companies would have it - would stifle American innovation. (And if you do that, China wins.) Ezrachi and Stucke - two acclaimed academics, one on each side of the Atlantic - make the case that the Tech Barons have for years offered up an irresistible "ideological platter" to legislators that allows them to justify not taking a harder stance against monopolisation in tech. The book focuses on the Gafam group - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. The platter, a glorious feast, is laid out in front of lawmakers via these companies directly, but also opaquely-funded think-tanks, academics and other bought and paid for commentators. The main course is that Big Tech's huge profits have a direct line to vast innovations - the smartphone, GPS, self-driving cars - when actually, the authors outline, that money is typically spent on "innovations" and "disruptions" that cement power and kill off competition. Some of the book retreads old ground in this debate: failings of current legislation and the decades-long reluctance from regulators to enforce existing laws. But the conversation is moved on considerably with an urgent argument that legislators must act now to shift their attention from past offences to instead taking on what is coming down the track. This "duck hunting" approach - shooting where the duck is heading, not where it is - seems smart when considering the use of personal data to power new models of advertising, something yet to register in the antitrust debate. The book encourages more flexible laws that can adapt with the same guile as Big Tech's efforts to undermine them, enabling "tech pirates", the up and coming innovators, to flourish where before they would be squashed. In all, it is a strong argument that deserves a good hearing: far from chilling innovation, the book concludes, reining in Big Tech may be the only way to save it.
Miranda Seymour, 2022, W W Norton & Company; 9781324006121
Subject: Biography
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: "I Used to Live Here Once," Miranda Seymour's illuminating and meticulously researched study of Rhys, reveals how her subject's tumultuous life informed her brilliant art. "Heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment: all became grist to Rhys's fiction-making mill," the British biographer explains. Her book paints a deft portrait of a flawed, complex, yet endlessly fascinating...Read More
I used to live here once: the haunted life of jean Rhys
"I Used to Live Here Once," Miranda Seymour's illuminating and meticulously researched study of Rhys, reveals how her subject's tumultuous life informed her brilliant art. "Heartbreak, poverty, notoriety, breakdowns and even imprisonment: all became grist to Rhys's fiction-making mill," the British biographer explains. Her book paints a deft portrait of a flawed, complex, yet endlessly fascinating woman who, though repeatedly bowed, refused to be broken.
Review: "In the Shadow of the Gods" is an instructive epic, deficient only in that the author does not pursue his subject to the present day. Mr. Lieven defines emperors as "hereditary holders of supreme authority," ruling disparate populations over long distances. They are usually male, notwithstanding Catherine the Great of Russia, Victoria of Great Britain, and Cixi, the dowager empress of China. The m...Read More
In the shadow of the gods: the emperor in world history
"In the Shadow of the Gods" is an instructive epic, deficient only in that the author does not pursue his subject to the present day. Mr. Lieven defines emperors as "hereditary holders of supreme authority," ruling disparate populations over long distances. They are usually male, notwithstanding Catherine the Great of Russia, Victoria of Great Britain, and Cixi, the dowager empress of China. The modern age, Mr. Lieven argues, is a "radically new era" in which hereditary and sacred monarchy are "no longer viable."
Ottessa Moshfegh, 2022, Penguin Random House; 9780593607701
Subject: Fiction
Source: The New York Times
Review: Lapvona is a minor fiefdom somewhere in medieval Europe. Its ruler, Lord Villiam, is a spoiled and petulant schemer, so feeble that when he walks down from his castle to the church in the village, he has to be carried back uphill. Lapvona was once a good place, with fertile soil and low taxes. Now, in the aftermath of a plague, it is grim, parched and poor. Its plight is worsened because Villiam h...Read More
Lapvona: a novel
Lapvona is a minor fiefdom somewhere in medieval Europe. Its ruler, Lord Villiam, is a spoiled and petulant schemer, so feeble that when he walks down from his castle to the church in the village, he has to be carried back uphill. Lapvona was once a good place, with fertile soil and low taxes. Now, in the aftermath of a plague, it is grim, parched and poor. Its plight is worsened because Villiam has at his disposal a gang of bandits who periodically ransack the village, stealing crops for Villiam to secretly sell to his business contacts in another fiefdom up north. Lapvona is also squalid in all the familiar medieval ways: a place of pestilence, deformities and skin diseases, lurid crime and extreme punishment.
Russell Foster, 2022, Penguin Random House; 9780241529300
Subject: Medicine and Health
Source: Financial Times
Review: We long to believe that we can be creatures of the day and night, that we can defy the dark to enjoy 24/7 lives defined by long working hours, minimal sleep and, if technology adverts are to be believed, going jogging in the middle of the night. In fact, insists University of Oxford neuroscientist Russell Foster in Life Time, we are "not able to do what we want at whatever time we choose. Our biol...Read More
Life time: the new science of the body clock, and how it can revolutionize your sleep and health
We long to believe that we can be creatures of the day and night, that we can defy the dark to enjoy 24/7 lives defined by long working hours, minimal sleep and, if technology adverts are to be believed, going jogging in the middle of the night. In fact, insists University of Oxford neuroscientist Russell Foster in Life Time, we are "not able to do what we want at whatever time we choose. Our biology is governed by a 24-hour biological clock that advises us when it is the best time to eat, sleep, think and undertake a myriad of other essential tasks." Pitched somewhere between science book and lifestyle manual, this is a comprehensive manifesto for living in harmony with our body clocks, penned by someone who has devoted his career to studying them. Chasing perfect synchronicity not only increases happiness and mental sharpness, he argues, but potentially reduces the risk of diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Foster made his name in the 1990s with the sensational discovery that the eye contains light-sensitive cells that are not involved in vision. Instead, these cells are key to regulating circadian rhythms (circadian refers to a 24-hour cycle), enabling the body to detect via light levels whether it is night or day. Light signals are sent to the "master clock", housed in an area of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nuclei, which then synchronises with the external environment. That process, he writes, sets the schedule for our internal workings: "For our bodies to function properly we need the correct materials in the right place, in the right amount, at the right time of day." This involves thousands of genes being switched on and off in a specific order. "Proteins, enzymes, fats, carbohydrates, hormones and other compounds have to be absorbed, broken down, metabolised and produced at a precise time for growth, reproduction, metabolism, movement, memory formation, defence and tissue repair." Sleep, of course, is an essential component of that schedule. During slumber, our bodies fix themselves, remove toxins, process ideas and lay down memories. Centuries of research, however, have failed to fully crack its mysteries, such as why we spend 36 per cent of our lives asleep. There is not even a widely accepted definition of what shuteye is; Foster describes it, somewhat unsatisfactorily, as a period of physical inactivity that allows essential biological activities to take place. But an inexact understanding does not mean we cannot sleep better and smarter, and this is the strength of Life Time. While the chapters, covering such topics as the dangers of shift work and the best time to eat, take us deep into the scientific research, acronyms and all, they are capped by simple, friendly Q&A sections covering questions to which we all want quick up-to-date answers. Does melatonin work for jet lag? It does for some, to a moderate extent, but not for others. Foster avoids it, preferring to use light exposure to reset his body clock according to whether he is travelling east or west across time zones. Does a disturbed sleep pattern - known as SCRD, or sleep and circadian rhythm disruption - increase the risk of Covid infection? Emerging research suggests night-shift workers with SCRD show higher rates of infection and hospitalisation, and given that the immune system is subject to circadian regulation, the link requires investigation. Parents of night-owl teens and older readers fed up of night-time visits to the bathroom will appreciate the insight on how sleep patterns change with age. There is also a helpful questionnaire to pinpoint your "chronotype", or whether you are a morning or evening person. But the genial consumer advice, sometime laced with "dad humour", comes with a serious message for policymakers: "The fact that society is not embracing the science of circadian rhythms represents an immense squandering of resources, and a major missed opportunity to improve health at every level."
Martin Puchner, 2022, Princeton University Press; 9780691213750
Subject: General
Source: Financial Times
Review: Author Martin Puchner, professor at Harvard University, he studies humanity's great epics, from sacred texts such as the Mayan Popul Vuh to ancient animal fables such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Jataka Tales of south Asia. But Puchner's concerns are not purely academic. He worries deeply about the looming threat of climate disaster and, just as importantly, our failure to construct narrati...Read More
Literature for a changing planet
Author Martin Puchner, professor at Harvard University, he studies humanity's great epics, from sacred texts such as the Mayan Popul Vuh to ancient animal fables such as the Sanskrit Panchatantra or the Jataka Tales of south Asia. But Puchner's concerns are not purely academic. He worries deeply about the looming threat of climate disaster and, just as importantly, our failure to construct narratives that galvanise us to act.Too much of our current discourse about climate change is laced with ideas of "sin and punishment, transgression and retribution", he argues in Literature for a Changing Planet. No one wants to listen to a hectoring activist or finger-wagging scientist, even if the world might be about to burn to a crisp.How did we get to such an impasse? Based on a conviction that the literary masterpieces of history (collectively defined as "world literature") comprise a "single, interrelated" phenomenon, Puchner asks how storytelling traditions have subconsciously framed our current thinking towards the environment.
Clare Mac Cumhaill, 2022, Doubleday; 9780385545709
Subject: General
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: All four women were "Armistice babies" who grew up between the two world wars. Three of them-Anscombe, Murdoch and Midgley-were raised in intellectual households on the outskirts of London. The fourth, Philippa Foot, came from a tony social milieu in North Yorkshire where young women were expected to ride to hounds rather than study Aristotle. Her mother, the daughter of Grover Cleveland, had been...Read More
Metaphysical animals: how four women brought philosophy back to life
All four women were "Armistice babies" who grew up between the two world wars. Three of them-Anscombe, Murdoch and Midgley-were raised in intellectual households on the outskirts of London. The fourth, Philippa Foot, came from a tony social milieu in North Yorkshire where young women were expected to ride to hounds rather than study Aristotle. Her mother, the daughter of Grover Cleveland, had been born in the White House.
Leila Mottley, 2022, Penguin Random House; 9780593607879
Subject: Fiction
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: Wishing away her problems is not an option for Kiara Johnson, the narrator of Leila Mottley's debut "Nightcrawling." The rent has just doubled for her East Oakland apartment. Her father is dead, her mother is in a halfway house and her brother-for years her ally in survival-has been lured from working by empty promises of musical stardom....Read More
Nightcrawling: a novel
Wishing away her problems is not an option for Kiara Johnson, the narrator of Leila Mottley's debut "Nightcrawling." The rent has just doubled for her East Oakland apartment. Her father is dead, her mother is in a halfway house and her brother-for years her ally in survival-has been lured from working by empty promises of musical stardom.
Colm Toibin, 2022, Pennsylvania State University Press; 9780271092898
Subject: Biography
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: Many people have been fooled by "Ulysses," or acted as fools in the face of it: claiming to have read it when they haven't; racing through its complex structure to reach Molly Bloom's soliloquy in search of titillation: "yes I said yes I will Yes"; calling it the most important novel in the English language, when it could plausibly be declared a literary dead end....Read More
One hundred years of James Joyce's 'Ulysses'
Many people have been fooled by "Ulysses," or acted as fools in the face of it: claiming to have read it when they haven't; racing through its complex structure to reach Molly Bloom's soliloquy in search of titillation: "yes I said yes I will Yes"; calling it the most important novel in the English language, when it could plausibly be declared a literary dead end.
Review: The repeal of the three farm laws marks the victory of one of the longest struggles of peasantry in the age of neo-liberal capitalism in India. It is a significant milestone in the history of pro-people social movements in many respects. First, it has boldly challenged the authoritarian-corporate nexus that desires to bring the agriculture sector and, in a way, food sovereignty under the control o...Read More
Pagrhi sambhal lehar to samyukt kisan morcha: a century of punjab kisan struggle 1907 - 2021
The repeal of the three farm laws marks the victory of one of the longest struggles of peasantry in the age of neo-liberal capitalism in India. It is a significant milestone in the history of pro-people social movements in many respects. First, it has boldly challenged the authoritarian-corporate nexus that desires to bring the agriculture sector and, in a way, food sovereignty under the control of corporate capital. Second, it has set an example for other social movements that aim to push back neo-liberal forces. Last but not the least, the victory of peasantry over the anti-peasantry laws is a major setback to the unregulated growth of imperialism that seeks to control the production and distribution system of food and land use in the third world countries. In the light of these facts, the significance of the book under review lies in the attempt by its author to historically contextualise the 2020?21 peasant struggle. The aut?hor's att?empt to draw parallels between the 2020?21 peasant struggle and major peasant agitations of the 20th century in Punjab brims with insight and telling details.
Review: By 1942 the increasing intensity of the war pushed the Germans to tighten the screws on Western Europe as well, and the result was predictable. Young men in France, for instance, fled to the hills to avoid being drafted for labor in Germany.Read More
Resistance: the underground war against Hitler, 1939-1945
By 1942 the increasing intensity of the war pushed the Germans to tighten the screws on Western Europe as well, and the result was predictable. Young men in France, for instance, fled to the hills to avoid being drafted for labor in Germany.
Patrick Radden Keefe, 2022, Picador; 9781035001750
Subject: Criminology
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: "Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks" collects 12 of Mr. Keefe's big articles for the New Yorker, where, as a staff writer, he often spends the better part of a year researching and shaping a particular feature. The pieces-full of extraordinary incidents and unpredictable turns of fate-are united by what the author calls his "abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, s...Read More
Rogues: true stories of grifters, killers, rebels and crooks
"Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks" collects 12 of Mr. Keefe's big articles for the New Yorker, where, as a staff writer, he often spends the better part of a year researching and shaping a particular feature. The pieces-full of extraordinary incidents and unpredictable turns of fate-are united by what the author calls his "abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial."
Tyler Cowen, 2022, St. Martin's Press; 9781250275813
Subject: Literature
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: In "Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World," Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross offer some methods for evaluating whether a person really is colleague material.Read More
Talent: how to identify energizers, creatives, and winners around the world
In "Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World," Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross offer some methods for evaluating whether a person really is colleague material.
Review: Several of the stories in "The Angel of Rome" fit that temporal harmony, that confluence of waiting time and story length, while also offering readers/dental patients the pleasures of intensely affecting fiction.Read More
The angel of Rome: and other stories
Several of the stories in "The Angel of Rome" fit that temporal harmony, that confluence of waiting time and story length, while also offering readers/dental patients the pleasures of intensely affecting fiction.
Simon Gathercole, 2022, Penguin Random House; 9780241340554
Subject: History
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Review: In December 1945, Muhammad Ali-not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt-uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, 13 in all, among them more than 50 ancient Christian texts.Read More
The apocryphal gospels
In December 1945, Muhammad Ali-not the boxer but a peasant farmer from Nag Hammadi, a town of Upper Egypt-uncovered an ancient earthenware jar. Muhammad and his brother broke it open and found books, 13 in all, among them more than 50 ancient Christian texts.
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