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...Established in 2014 by American shoe designer Mary Alice Malone, the label’s slippers and loafers are among the most perfectly formed I’ve seen outside of a Manolo Blahnik store....
...Oh, and to be reminded that it was a woman, Penelope Spheeris, who was responsible for the idiotic genius of Wayne’s World (1992)....
...On at the Traverse, Penelope Skinner’s Meek is an unconvincing story of a woman rebelling against a fictional gendered dystopia....
.... ★★★☆☆ Another female-led exploration of violence, Penelope Skinner’s Meek is set in a dystopia that feels rather like a Scandinavian spin on The Handmaid’s Tale....
...Penelope Lively March 23, 2pmSheldonian Theatre, £8-£13.50 Novelist Penelope Lively discusses her memoir Life in the Garden with literary critic Peter Kemp. Daniel Wakelin: gladdeth, ye lovers!...
...Penelope, by Rebecca Harrington, Virago, RRP£14.99, 304 pages Rebecca Harrington’s debut tells the story of Penelope O’Shaunessy, a freshman at Harvard....
...‘Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk – An Introspective’ continues to January 8, www.brooklynmuseum.org....
...Edmund White’s top 10 books: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald; The Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov; The Folding Star by Alan Hollinghurst; Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov...
...The company recently launched a limited edition range of pendants inspired by Walt Disney’s new version of Alice in Wonderland and focused on the tea party scene....
...Or again, at a London railway station, you might catch a glimpse of a pretty Sloane girl hurrying for a country train, in Alice band and pie-crust frill blouse, and feel like an ornithologist sighting an...
...and the arts./ ‘And also,’ says Penelope/ ‘This family life is not for me./ I find it leads to deep depression/ And I was born for self expression.’”...
...Transporting readers further back, to the Trojan War, Margaret Atwood rewrote The Odyssey from the point of view of the long-suffering but mostly forgotten heroine, Penelope....
...Runaway By Alice Munro Chatto Windus £15.99, 333 pages Alice Munro is one of the great storytellers of our time, descended from a line going back to Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield....
...THE VIEW FROM CASTLE ROCK by Alice Munro Chatto & Windus ₤15.99, 368 pages The acknowledged mistress of the short story transforms the raw material of her family history into a treasure-trove of pieces...
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