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...Ann Patchett once told an interviewer that she has been writing the same book all her life....
...Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake (Bloomsbury, 11 hrs 22 mins) might seem an unlikely choice: a woman in her fifties retells the gripping events of a summer from her youth to her three daughters, to pass the time...
...Cowbois Royal Court Theatre, London The Wild West just got a little wilder....
...In contrast to their wilder personas, he had a calm playing style and gentlemanly temperament....
...Lang and fellow émigré directors Otto Preminger, Max Ophüls, Billy Wilder, Robert Siodmak, Edward Dmytryk and Michael Curtiz brought expressionist techniques to the US: off-kilter “Dutch” camera angles,...
...Lonnie, as he’s known, or Lon, is a blue-collar widower aged 36 with a son, Egan, who is 12, and a daughter, Shelby-Ann, who is nine....
...Later I tell the Scots-born Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, now director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, about my visit. “Jupiter is fantastic,” she says....
...Mr Trump was praised by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Geert Wilders, the far-right Dutch populist, who tweeted: “No immigrants from Islamic countries.”...
...Robinson promoted an altogether wilder aesthetic....
...Follow the coast round and the sand becomes coarser, the coastline wilder (this is the outer edge of the archipelago now) and the tourists fewer. Again the food here was outstanding....
...An outspoken propagandist for naturalistic gardening, he helped wrench British gardens away from the Victorian ideal of labour-intensive carpet bedding and perfectly raked gravel to appreciate what the wilder...
...His sense of playfulness in planning the surprise apparition of a “character” went hand in hand – I sensed – with a sort of amused admiration for the wilder side of his fellow countrymen....
...Run By Ann Patchett Bloomsbury £14.99, 295 pages FT bookshop price: £11.99 A new novel from the author of Bel Canto....
...Geert Wilders, whose controversial views have led to comparison with Pim Fortuyn, the anti-immigrant academic murdered in 2002, re-emerged in parliament to criticise measures ann-ounced by the government...
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