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...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...“I’m a little cold-blooded about it. I realised I was going to have to stop thinking about what she would have wanted and just go ahead....
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...“You can’t just rock up and put a show on people’s doorsteps,” says Hemmings....
...Ranking “danger” It seems Benzell et al. have a funny way of determining the “danger” of a given location....
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...A founder of Italy’s Five Star Movement, Grillo brought 2m protesters to the streets in 2007 for a “V-Day” rally....
...Its celebrated alumni — Shackleton and Captain Scott, Wilfred Thesiger, Ranulph Fiennes et al — were typically former public-school boys and army officers, deeply rooted in the establishment and celebrated...
...My own dish had arrived by now, but I found I had little appetite....
...The writer is author of ‘What They Teach You at Harvard Business School’...
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...this illuminating history of late tsarist Russia by Lieven, professor of Russian studies at the London School of Economics....
...… The History of Rock’n’Roll in Ten Songs, by Greil Marcus, Yale, RRP£16.99/$28 To veteran critic Marcus, rock claims to “divine all truths, reveal all mysteries, and escape all restrictions”: a kind...
...Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir’s Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Allen Lane) concludes that attention is everything but with focus we can tunnel and miss things....
...In a show ostensibly about Pop Art design, it is mostly art that is the star (Blake, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Warhol et al)....
...We all know about Richard Branson et al: they are a cliché. Yet the explanation offered is unexpected....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“‘Look to the rock from which you are hewn.’ We were hewn from a rock of people who were ready to lay down their lives for freedom . . ....
...While the black taffeta evening gowns and sturdy looking peacoats on Karlie Kloss et al shouted winter, the models’ peachy complexions were all spring – try Bobbi Brown’s Sheer Color Cheek Tint in Sheer...
...If Edna O’Brien et al turn up next year, this festival will be worth attending....
...He joined the army at 16 as a junior soldier after listening to a presentation at his school in Liverpool....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...(In Herzog’s remarkably eloquent but accented English, “w” sounds emerge as “v” sounds.)...
...al were the way forward....
...Nick Hornby et al followed. Davies deserves this reissue under a new title....
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