Summer Books 2021: Opposition Decisions

topglobe June 26, 2021

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Roula Khalaf

FT Editor

There are a number of excellent books that inspire readers this summer, including John Preston Fall, the intriguing story of the rise and fall of Robert Maxwell, and World of Sales, in which Javier Blas and Jack Farchy tell the thrilling stories of dynamic merchants and marketers and geopolitics. My biggest choice is the story that everyone should read as we exit the Coronavirus virus. Michael Lewis’ Prophecy is the story of a group of American volunteer scientists and medical professionals who have spent years preparing for a Covid-like epidemic, but are constantly frustrated by politicians and governors. It’s the grape Lewis, the terrifying and dangerous threat of institutional failure. In the meantime I am reading about Leila Slimani The land of others, a striking introduction to multilingualism after 1945 by Franco-Moroccan writer who will be published in English in August The World of Others.

Frederick Studemann

Editor of FT notes

Since travel is still possible, most of us have to do our own research near our home. Mu Deep Time Notes Helen Gordon tells us to look at what is under our feet, and bring us back billions of years ago when the Earth was created, made and moved – literally tropical beaches under roads. Going back to the latest, I really enjoyed Alaa al-Aswany Republic of True False an exciting story about the Egyptian revolution in 2011, and their hopes for all of them and oppression. A powerful reminder of why fiction is often the best way to present facts. Likewise, Sergei Lebedev’s Incredible Establishing in a world of toxic protesters, anti-apartheid and Kremlin politics is an exciting thing that still exists. Like many FT readers, closing has led me to research about audio books, and find gemstones in addition to Jonathan Keeble’s reading by Danial Kehlmann Tulle. An astonishing mix of facts, myths and ideas being put behind the scenes and turmoil of the Thirty Years’ War. Great listening.

Alec Russell

FT Sabbath Editor

I have read more lasting books this year than any other year I can remember but one thing is clear: Rider. The perpetrator is a German Jewish businessman who miraculously crosses his homeland by train and then panics after Kristall, PA. It is a spectacular demonstration of human weakness, a bitter image of the speed at which respect can rise, the excitement, the strong awareness in Nazi Germany. The author, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, a 23-year-old German Jew, wrote this enthusiastically about slavery in 1938. His future and the handwriting two years ago are fascinating stories in their own right. His book was co-authored with Hans Fallada – appropriately.

Camilla Cavendish

Editor providing FT

Mu Destruction: The Politics of Disaster, Niall Ferguson is running a natural disaster from the eruption of Vesuvius to the Cold War ll. However, despite the few problems described, this was a great encouragement to me. Ferguson quotes Amartya Sen’s clear notion that hunger is man-made, not natural – think of Stalin’s inclusive nature – and escalates the conflict into epidemics. Epidemics are natural, but the U.S. responded better to the Asian flu in 1957, according to him, than Covid-19. They measure government failures and contribute to everything from death to sci-fi. Behavior.

Simon Schama

Editor providing FT

If you don’t have the time or patience for fiction that just works like a connection; the plot of guiding ideas; if you are thirsty for a language that speaks poetry, wisdom, visions, music, then your correspondent (and me) is Philip Hoare Albert and the Whale, is very professional, as well as your brief enjoyment, distraction, reflection, reflection and conviction for the reasons that appear when you sit on its pages, a day at the beach. Especially for Dürer, the rabbit drawings, the white roller wings, and the amazing waters of the Great Piece of Turf, Hoare joins others, Erwin Panofsky, Thomas Mann, Marianne Moore, WH Auden not only: swimming, but never leaning, in the movement of his associations comfortable with learning analogs. Oh yes, you also find cetaceans amazing, deep and prophetic.

Enuma Okoro

FT Life & Arts reporter

In a recent book by Jhumpa Lahiri, Where it is, written in its Italian language, and translated into English, remains the author in whose hands we can expect to find common sense and the grace of what is always revealed. We follow the meditation of an unnamed woman who cares about her life. As he watches the people in it, as he meditates on his thoughts, as he walks through the door, up the stairs, in the corridors and down the streets of his earthly corner, we are reminded of how our lives are shaped by the subtle expressions of human nature.

I have Okri

RESPECTFUL AND FARMER

Mu At night All Blood Is Black David Diop they use Giloti a story about the horrific story of the African people in the First World War. Diop transforms an important subject that makes a person think and act that would have been distorted in any other statement, revealing how to say it and how it happens. The great end of the atrocities of the Great War.

I met Roy

FT reporter

I have often been burned by the “book that everyone is discussing”, so I went to Zakiya Dalila Harris Another Black Girl and doubts – The Devil Wears Prada joints Get out, right? The book begins as an office drama – Nella, 26, rejoices when Hazel joins Wagner Books, hoping to date “another black girl” in a free Manhattan free printing company – but ventures into a tight, dry environment. Harris, who worked at Penguin Random House, conveys the thrill of humor in the printing press and the lack of access to various town halls, and is a real threat to a homeless woman who relies heavily on friendly forests. Another Black Girl he will make fun of you to the end; my good summer reading.

Tim Harford

FT reporter

Whether we keep our excuses or not shooting our enemies, our images show how we express our beliefs as soldiers, says Julia Galef Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Openly But Others Do Not. In the sharp and original book, he argues for a better illustration: we should be like scouts, trying to map and describe the uncertain world. And they make up a reflection on why scout ideas not only help us be more accurate, but they also help us to be happier.

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Frog Foroohar

FT Global Business Columnist

Mu All That He Carries: Ashley Bag Tour, Family Black Keepsake, Professor of Harvard Tiya Miles brings a special kind of education to the heartbreaking story of a simple cotton bag that tells a human story. The embellishment there and their skill:

My grandmother Rose
Ashley’s mother handed her the bag
He was sold at the age of nine in South Carolina
It consists of a three-dot dress in hand
pecans braided hair of Roses. He tells her
Filled with my Love always
They never saw him again
Ashley is my grandmother
Ruth Middleton
1921

If you want a window on what it means to be black in America for two centuries, read this.

Gillian Tett

Chair of FT EDITORIAL BOARD AND US EDITOR-AT-LARGE

If you want a book that doesn’t just give you powerful information on why prejudice is a plague in America today, as well as a way to put this thinking in perspective – even hopefully – in the future, Heather McGhee‘s Number of Us must read. While focusing heavily on the African-American community and Black Lives Matter messages, McGhee’s ideas can spread anywhere. Also, read this and Leaders of Isabel Wilkinson Cut, To find the powerful lens on the issue that is now facing (almost) everyone in business and the economy today.

Susie Boyt

Foreign Writer and FT

I fell in love with Helen Garner Yellow Book, one of his writings, which is highly regarded, along with the repetitive threads of a marriage that melts tragically, the fierce love of mother-daughter, the enlightenment of those who want to attend school, the success of professionals and disasters: “You are the best you can be.” A quick reading of a text goes hand in hand with a quick reading of life, both written with a keen interest, hard and fun, often very high, sometimes brutal. about calico after drinking three glasses of Chablis, to make sure he was not drunk.

Jemima Kelly

FT reporter Alphaville

My summer reading time is usually a drive away from the beautiful houses whose leaves are gray and sunny in the weeks that take me to get through. When the best season came this year, I wanted to find something a little lighter. Melissa Broder Too Much Milk it was the only thing – funny, funny, and funny, funny and funny lie of a very greedy Jewish woman who doesn’t cheat with an embarrassed mother who falls for an old Orthodox woman she meets on the fifth yogurt room. A book that I ate fast and fast as a protagonist destroys a rainbow.