Bookish: LEGACY OF CANE (3#) -

Frank Alastair Mackey is the subject of an essay by Gaiutra Bahadur, who provides some interesting context, background and perspective to the Booker Prize and the company behind it.

An essay in which the tapestry of History has woven the heritage and destinies of the subject Mackey and the writer Bahadur together into a fateful symmetry that is a wee gem.

# A portrait of Jared Kushner, the new
owner of the NY Observer, by Tom Teodorczuk.

# Glitterati: The front door manager of the Groucho Club in Soho, Bernie Katz, has written a book which is being published by Quartet.

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