Hints and tips:
...Where historians can only speculate, the Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue wades in to offer a riotously entertaining account of that fateful rendezvous....
...I think it’s even worse now because we now live in this age of social media, where we’re all supposed to be perfect angels....
...(Richard Saltoun gallery, priced at £300,000) and works by the African-Caribbean American artist Miguel Angel Payano Jr (Galleria Poggiali, €4,500-€14,000)....
...In the theatrical set piece “Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows”, the Gothic spire pierces billowing skies, horses wade through a glassy stream, dragging a cart....
...Are we at the Angel of the North yet? That one feels poignant. Not so long ago, I’d have been throwing it at my kids in the back....
...In the National’s Olivier, meanwhile, Tony Kushner returns for the first time since the stonking 2017 success of Angels in America with a new version of Dürrenmatt’s The Visit (from January 31)....
...Born in 1950, he rose to fame in 1998 when his 20-metre “Angel of the North” was installed above a motorway in north-east England....
...Author Chris Goodall is an advocate for electric vehicles and an angel investor in the green economy....
...There are no guardian angels (yes, London has seen angels many years ago at Sadler’s Wells Theatre)....
...By encouraging the better angels of our natures, they can also be beautiful and inspiring....
...As water reconquers the land, tower blocks crumble (“A Green Thought in a Green Land”), and half-vanishing exhausted figures wade through rising tides (“King Rooster”); a majestic shire horse moves gracefully...
...As an angel investor, Abdel Meguid is currently backing two start-ups....
...Angel Gurría, head of the OECD, is convinced of the new reality....
...Speakers include the Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde and OECD secretary-general Ángel Gurría....
...Ángel Gurría Quintana …………………………………………………………….....
...The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes, by Steven Pinker, Allen Lane, RRP£17.99 A hugely impressive effort to document and explain the increasingly peaceful nature...
...The reader who wades in should expect a long, hard slog, with little likelihood of emerging on the far side appreciably enlightened....
...Reflecting on their situation the next morning, as they wade through the snow, she asks, “You know what killed off the glyptodont?” The answer: “Stupidity.”...
...Royal is a Charlie’s Angel, from the 21st century, who eats fish and steamed vegetables and resembles a snake.John.Thornhill@ft.com...
...The temptation to do the same for Angel Raich and her marijuana may prove overpowering....
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