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Category Archives: Stories
Life & Arts: FT Weekend Magazine – Oct 8/9, 2022
FT Weekend Magazine – October 8, 2022
In an exclusive interview, Tesla chief Elon Musk talks to FT editor Roula Khalaf about moving to Mars, saving free speech — and why ageing is the one ‘problem’ that should not be solved
Sunday Morning: News Stories From Zurich, The Balkans, Tokyo & Vienna
Our weekend programme comes live from Monocle’s radio studio in Zürich, where Tyler Brûlé and a panel of special-guest thought leaders discuss key topics in front of a studio audience.
From Milan: Salone highlights, interviews and a daily running guide. More info.
Books: The New York Times Book Review – Oct 9, 2022
Sex, Violence and Ecstasy: Leonard Cohen’s Early Fiction
A posthumous release of the songwriter’s unseen novel and stories from the 1950s reveals his nascent fascination with human frailty.
The Global Might of the Tiny Chip
Silicon chips power everything from cars and toys to phones and nukes. “Chip War,” by Chris Miller, recounts the rise of the chip industry and the outsize geopolitical implications of its ascendancy.
Ignoramuses Are Gaining Ground, Andy Borowitz Warns
In his new book, the satirist and comedian traces the rise of ill-equipped politicians and considers how to thwart them.
Cover Preview: Barron’s Magazine – Oct 10, 2022
The U.S. Dollar Is Superstrong. 8 Ways to Invest Abroad
The U.S. dollar got a brief, welcome walloping this past week, falling 1.5% on Tuesday alone against a basket of six major currencies. It remains up a hefty 17% for the year, and close to its strongest level in decades. That matters for ordinary savers, and not just forex flippers.
Rivian Is Recalling Nearly All Vehicles It’s Produced. The Move Shows the Challenges of Building Cars.
Payrolls Are Strong, Oil Is Rising. But the Fed Seems Intent on Raising Rates.
Chipotle Set to Test a Speedy Robo Burrito Maker
Tax-Loss Selling Is Wall Street’s Refuge in a Down Market
News Analysis: Midterm Election, Nuclear Threat
New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including October surprises in the U.S. and crises on the world stage with just a month until the midterms.
Previews: Archaeology Magazine – Nov/Dec 2022
Priestess, Poet, Politician
4,000 years ago, the world’s first author composed verses that helped forge the Akkadian Empire
Mexico’s Butterfly Warriors
The annual monarch migration may have been a sacred event for the people of Mesoamerica
A Tale of Two Abbeys
How entrepreneurial monks shaped the landscape of medieval England
Bronze Age Urban Experiment
Archaeologists debate who ruled the cities of the ancient Indus Valley
Magical Mystery Door
An investigation of an Egyptian sacred portal reveals a history of renovation and deception
Reviews: The Top Fiction Books To Read (Fall 2022)
Act of Oblivion
By Robert Harris | Harper
The Indemnity and Oblivion Act of 1660 singled out a small number of regicides for grisly punishment. Robert Harris’s novel imagines the manhunt through colonial New England for two participants in the decision to execute Charles I roughly a decade before.
The Backstreets: A Novel From Xinjiang
By Perhat Tursun | Columbia
“I don’t know anyone in this strange city, so it’s impossible for me to be friends or enemies with anyone.” The Kafkaesque story of a nameless Uyghur man in a Chinese metropolis renders the real-world crisis of an entire culture into a haunting parable of power and powerlessness, and the use of loneliness as a tool of oppression.
The Betrothed
By Alessandro Manzoni | Modern Library
The sweeping tale, now little remembered in America, of a pair of 17th-century Italian lovers, separated by the designs of a cruel aristocrat. Michael E. Moore offers the first English translation in more than 50 years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.
Less Is Lost
By Andrew Sean Greer | Little, Brown
The “innocent abroad” at the heart of Andrew Sean Greer’s “Less” (2017) endured adventures both comic and heartwarming. The novel garnered the 2018 Pulitzer Prize. Now its good-natured writer-hero returns for another road trip in a rollicking sequel.
Lessons
By Ian McEwan | Knopf
In novels like “Sweet Tooth” and “Atonement,” Ian McEwan has taught readers to be on their guard, ready for a twist or revelation that might put all that’s come before in doubt. In “Lessons,” Mr. McEwan has created something to confound such expectations, in the portrait of a lost, likable protagonist whose “shapeless existence” is at the center of an unpredictable, very human journey through his own traumas, failures and hopes.
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The Marriage Portrait
By Maggie O’Farrell | Knopf
At the tender age of 15, Lucrezia, the daughter of the Florentine ruler Cosimo de’ Medici, is wed in a marriage of diplomatic alliance to another powerful nobleman. She would survive less than a year—a timeframe brought into thrilling focus in an intense and vivid portrait from the author of “Hamnet.”
My Phantoms
By Gwendoline Riley | NYRB Classics
The gaps in understanding between two people can be an occasion for frustration—or a confrontation with the central enigma of consciousness. In the spare but powerful fiction of the English novelist Gwendoline Riley, the tangled streets of a city or the banalities of a conversation can stand in for the uncertain terrain of the mysterious and elusive self.
Natural History: Stories
By Andrea Barrett | Norton
In a unique set of linked stories, many of which take place in a small lakeside town in New York, the writer Andrea Barrett offers the interconnected histories of a set of characters deeply involved both with one another and the fragile, beautiful world around them. Here, the ecology of the heart and the wonders of nature flourish side by side.
Nights of Plague
By Orhan Pamuk | Knopf
The new novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of “Snow” and “My Name Is Red” stages a turn-of-the-20th-century tale of intrigue on a Mediterranean island ruled by the Ottoman Empire. An outbreak of the Black Plague and the quarantines that follow set the stage for political strife: The assassination of a health official raises the stakes in a tale that combines mystery with a richly detailed portrait of a society in turmoil.
Shrines of Gaiety
By Kate Atkinson | Doubleday
In the nightclubs of 1920s London, frivolity and fun are the order of the day—and Nellie Coker reigns as monarch of the quasi-legal revels. In this novel from the celebrated author of “Life After Life,” the disappearance of a young girl brings both the police and a determined amateur sleuth into the demimonde that Nellie and her family rule.
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World Economic Forum: Top Stories (Oct 7, 2022)
Cover: The New York Times Magazine – Oct 9, 2022
Risking Everything to Offer Abortions Across State Lines
Doctors and midwives in blue states are working to get abortion pills into red states — setting the stage for a historic legal clash.
What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay
No greater challenge faces humanity than reducing emissions without backsliding into preindustrial poverty. One tiny country is leading the way.
The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair
Lydia Millet believes the natural world can help us become more human.
