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Roula Khalaf
FT editor
There are several great books to recommend to readers this summer, including John Preston’s Erori, A fascinating tale of Robert Maxwell’s rise and fall, and The world for salein which Javier Blas and Jack Farchy tell fascinating stories of market and geopolitical merchandise and mysterious market actors. My best option is a story that everyone should read as we emerge from the destruction of Coronavirus. Michael Lewis’ Forecast It’s the story of some of America’s most banned scientists and medical professionals who have been preparing for a Covid-like pandemic for years, frustrated by politicians and bureaucrats every time. Lewis is an old man who condemns the failure of an organization that is attractive and appealing. Right now I’m reading Leila Slimani The land of others, the lively and multifaceted beginning of the post-1945 trilogy by the Franco-Moroccan author, to be published in English in August The People of Others.
Frederick Studemann
FT literary editor
Since travel is off the agenda, many of us need to explore closer to home. In Deep Time Notes Helen Gordon invites us to see the worlds beneath our feet, when the Earth was created, shaped and changed, literally the tropical beaches beneath the sidewalk, to pass billions of years. Going back to recent times, I really enjoyed Alaa al-Aswany Republic of False Truths A compelling account of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, with all its shattered hopes and cynical repression. To remind us why fiction is usually the best way to convey reality. Also Sergei Lebedevena What can’t be traced it’s a vicious thriller set in the world of poisoned dissidents, conflicting morals, and the Kremlin’s power policies. Like many FT readers, the lockout prompted me to explore the world of audio books, capturing a few gems, including Jonathan Keeble’s excellent Danial Kehlmann Tulea. A wonderful and playful mix of facts, fiction and ideas set against the backdrop of the horrors and confusion of the Thirty Years ’War. Excellent hearing.
Alec Russell
FT Weekend Editor
I’ve read more enduring books this year than I can remember in all the years I remember and yet one stands out: Passenger. Its protagonist is a German Jewish businessman who crosses his hometown by train, first terrified and then terrified, then terrified. Kristallnacht. It’s an astonishing reflection on the vulnerability of humanity, a serious diagram of the speed at which dignity can explode, a thriller, a horrific view of Nazi Germany. The author, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a 23-year-old German Jew, wrote in exile in 1938 at high speed. His fate and the story of the discovery of the manuscript two years ago are remarkable stories in themselves. His novel is mentioned next to Hans Fallada – deservedly so.
Camilla Cavendish
FT assistant editor
In Doom: Disaster Policy, Since Niall Ferguson exploded on Vesuvius in the next Cold War II. However, despite the liturgical tragedies described, it seemed to me an appealing gem. Ferguson supports Amartya Sen’s mythical analysis of the fact that famine is usually caused by humans, not natural – think Stalin’s policy of collectivization – and extends the argument to pandemics. The plague is natural, but the U.S. responded much more effectively to the Asian flu in 1957 than to Covid-19. He commits bureaucratic mistakes and offers reflections on death from science to fiction. Teaching.
Simon Schama
FT assistant editor
If you don’t have the time or patience to not have fiction that works as a communication tool; plains thrown with lead; if you are thirsty for the language that makes you poetically, philosophically, visually, musically, then for you (and certainly for me) the writer is Philip Hoare. Albert and the whale, is a masterpiece, but also a summer pleasure, an incident, a meditation, a lighting and certainly when you live in its pages, a day at the beach. It also looks like Dürer, hare drawings, blue roller wings, and a wonderful watercolor of much of the Turf, along with Hoare, among others, Erwin Panofsky, Thomas Mann, Marianne Moore, WH Auden, and most of all himself: swimming, but never drowned, his in the tidal flow of free associations and learned analogies. Yes, you also get cetaceans in all their incredibly exciting, deep and prophetic.
Enuma Okoro
FT Life & Arts columnist
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s latest novel, Where it is, written in his adopted Italian language and self-translated into English, remains in his hands a storyteller in whose hands we can always hope to continually reveal the usual sacredness and grace of everyday life. We follow the meditative meanders of an unnamed woman as we look back on her life. When he observes people, reflects his thoughts, climbs through doors, up stairs, through corridors, and down the streets of his corners of the world, he reminds us of how our lives are written with small narratives based on the human condition.
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NOVELS AND POET
In At night All blood is black David Diop expands griot the tradition of storytelling to tell the gruesome story of Africans in the First World War. Diop reverses the narrative imperative, creating emotions and realities that would be drowned out in any other narrative, revealing that the way to tell is the way to live. An essential decolonization of the narrative tyranny of the Great War.
Nilanjana Roy
FT columnist
I’ve been burned too often by “everyone’s talking books”, so I approached Zakiya Dalila Harris Another black girl with skepticism – The devil wears the Prada meets them Exit, really? The novel begins as an office drama – Nella, 26, is happy to join Hazel Wagner Books, hoping to befriend the “other black girl” in the white liberal publishing house in Manhattan – but plunges into darker, darker lands. Harris, who worked at Penguin Random House, offers a sleazy thriller, very funny in the post about the racist submission and the sharp gap in diversity councils, and takes the fear out of this story of a naive wandering woman. too much in a forest of trusting friendship. Another black girl it will make you laugh until you cry; my perfect summer read.
Tim Harford
FT columnist
Whether we are defending our arguments or not throwing our enemies, our metaphors denounce the way we defend our beliefs as soldiers, says Julia Galef Scout thinking: Why some see things clearly and others don’t. In a rigorous and original book, he argues for a better metaphor: we should be like explorers, trying to map and clarify the world of uncertainty. It makes a thoughtful case as to why exploratory thinking not only gives us reason, it helps us to be happy.
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Igel Foroohar
FT Global Business columnist
In He carried everything: Ashley’s sack trip, a memory of a black family, A Harvard professor Tiya Miles it brings a great kind of scholarship to the story of a simple cotton sack that tells the story of a town. The words embroidered on it are their kind of art:
My grandmother’s virus Rose
When Ashley’s mother gave him this sack
It was sold at the age of 9 in South Carolina
She had a torn 3-handed dress
Roses pecans braid hair. He told her
It will always be filled with My Love
He did not see her again
Ashley is my grandmother
Ruth Middleton
1921
If you want a window to show what it means to be black in America for two centuries, read this.
Gillian Tett
FT EDITORIAL COMMITTEE PRESENTATION AND GREAT US EDITOR
If you want a book, it will let you know why and how racism it is such an evil in America today, but it is consolidating in a positive (as well as a positive) sense in the future. Heather McGhee‘s Our sum must be read. Although it focuses on the African American community and Black Lives Matter posts, McGheer’s ideas can be transplanted anywhere. Better yet, read on with this Teaching by Isabel Wilkinson Caste, to get a strong lens on a problem facing (almost) everyone involved in business and finance today.
Susie Boyt
Novelist and FT assistant
I loved Helen Garner’s comrade Yellow notebook, a diary of one of his diaries, which includes casual observations of the highest quality, repetitive threads of a marriage, painful and hard love for mothers and daughters, dismantling new auditions, professional victories, and disasters. . . . You are at your best ”. The rigorous readings of literary works coincide with the rigorous readings of life, all marked by creative enthusiasm, sharp and stimulating, often enthusiastic, sometimes evil. He knows how to live, admiring the pajamas of a dying man, or making chalice cushion covers after drinking three glasses of Chablis, to prove that he is not drunk.
Jemima Kelly
FT Alphaville Reporter
My summer reading routine is usually to walk around sturdy tomatoes, as their pages are peeling and twisting in the sun during the weeks I need to cross them. When the good weather came this year, I felt the urge to get something lighter. Melissa Broder Milk feeding it was a thing – a moving story, poignant, but also funny, erotic and eccentric, with a fat-shy mother who encounters a young Jewish woman who doesn’t practice food obsession in a frozen yogurt fairy tale. saloon. I swallowed the book as quickly and enthusiastically as the protagonist swallowed the rainbow splashes.
Summer books 2021
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