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...Brandon Taylor, the American novelist, spent two years steadily reading Zola. “Took two years, three apartments, 3 (or 4) countries . . ....
...I have little in common with Benjamin Dreyer (author of the 2019 bestseller Dreyer’s English) or the novelist Brandon Taylor (The Late Americans, Real Life), except that we are among a clutch of writers...
...And with the turf safe from harm, chances are someone like pop sensation Taylor Swift is putting bums on seats upstairs....
...As Iger battles Peltz, he has also secured endorsements from the grandchildren of Disney founders Walt and Roy Disney, who sent a letter to shareholders backing the chief executive....
...writers have the ability and licence to capture sweeping changes — countries in transition, deepening rifts, lost generations — through intimate portraits of ordinary lives, from Thatcher’s Britain in Alan...
...I read Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans as they read RF Kuang and Nicola Yoon. We occupied our individual, side-by-side paradises, briefly companions on the same trail....
...growth figures Results: Aston Martin Lagonda FY, Groupe Casino FY, Co-operative Bank FY, HP Q1, Just Eat Takeaway.com FY, Paramount Global Q4, Reckitt Benckiser FY, Salesforce Q4, St James’s Place FY, Taylor...
...For more on the US presidential election, listen to this week’s Swamp Notes podcast, where the FT’s Rana Foroohar and Taylor Nicole Rogers discuss why unions may decide the race....
...Like Alan Parker’s extraordinary film, The Late Americans is compelling in its determination to capture the tenderness of aspiring artists, their desperate ambition and crushing uncertainty....
...he asks — and he doesn’t mean eldest son Connor (Alan Ruck), who is bumbling around downstairs. The other three are in Los Angeles collaborating on a “modern media” outlet....
...A growing number of House Republicans said after Scalise was nominated that he had not earned their vote, including Chip Roy of Texas, Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Nancy...
...Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein is at Tate Modern, London, until 2024....
...FT Weekend — Even if you’re not a fan of Taylor Swift, it’s been difficult to avoid the pop star over over the past year. Her new film Eras chronicling the US leg of her tour....
...But I’m more eagerly looking forward to Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black, which stars Marisa Abela....
...An actor who in the 1950s and 1960s embodied chiselled masculinity and romantic screen maleness (count the movie love-mates, from Jane Wyman to Elizabeth Taylor to Doris Day to Gina Lollobrigida) was later...
...Alan Goldstein, a New York-based executive recruiter, said Wall Street human resource executives blamed the transparency for a wave of resignations after bonuses were paid out at the end of February....
...The current editors are John Hillier and Roy Lancaster, as expert as anyone could wish....
...Treacle Walker by Alan Garner, Fourth Estate £10, 160 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The state’s current governor, Democrat Roy Cooper, is term limited....
...“Streaming will soon be a profitable business, but it will never be as insanely profitable as the cable business was,” says Alan Wolk, co-founder and lead analyst at TVRev, a research firm....
...As we’re finishing up our interview, and the table is cleared of its breakfast contents, she hands me a parting gift, a book: Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything by Alan Moore....
...Arguably, Connor Roy (played by Alan Ruck) — Logan Roy’s eldest son by his first marriage and the one least interested in the family business — is the Roy sibling with the most comfortable status....
...Paul Newman: The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man: A Memoir compiled and edited by David Rosenthal, Century £25, 320 pages Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries edited by Alan Taylor, Canongate £25...
...Nilanjana Roy is a Weekend FT columnist. Follow her on Twitter at @nilanjanaroy Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...This week’s most extraordinary coup de théâtre has not been the one concerning the Roy family, nor the drama consuming the fate of UK morning television and its woebegotten cast of sofa-surfers....
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