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...In 1960 she arrived in England, one of a group of Australian migrants which included Germaine Greer, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries and Clive James....
...As Philip Roth observed, getting people wrong — again and again — is a common human pastime....
...The death of Philip Roth in May found me with my hand paused temptingly over the battered copy of The Human Stain on my shelves. Surely a little light commemorative reading could do no harm?...
...It was his third title in a late-career comeback that beggars most sporting comparisons, leaving you to reach for Philip Roth’s 1990s revival as a truer parallel....
...the vacuum left by the ill-fated Birth of a Nation — once a sure favourite to benefit from the Academy’s new diversity awareness, now hobbled by an ugly rape scandal involving the film’s director — is Barry...
...Philip Roth wrote about sexual neurotics and ostracised professors. John Updike defined his work as “giving the mundane its beautiful due”. His Rabbit series is a study in provincial marginalia....
...The Humbling, directed by Barry Rain Man Levinson and shot on an indie-slim budget (says the puff) largely in Levinson’s own Connecticut home, adapts Philip Roth’s penultimate novel....
...The move by Schulte Roth & Zabel follows record inflows into US activist funds that are providing ammunition for their managers to place larger bets and travel further afield in search of targets....
...Jürgen Steinemann, chief executive of the chocolate producer Barry Callebaut, says the measure would be “a drama”....
...“Activism in general has become more serious,” says David Rosewater, partner at Schulte Roth & Zabel, who has advised several activist hedge funds....
...What Mr Lipton is to corporate defence work, Paul Roth is to the activists. Known as the “dean of the hedge fund bar”, Mr Roth says activists tend to show up for a reason – and with a plan....
...I have turned to Philip Roth, knowing he hardly ever disappoints....
...While I agree that the likes of Philip Roth and John Updike are important writers, so was J.L. Carr....
...Athill, who has edited Philip Roth, John Updike, VS Naipaul and Jean Rhys among others, decided to sell most of the books. Some, she says, have fetched “quite a bit of money”....
...EMPG had hoped to reduce debt by selling the trade and reference division, which publishes The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger and Philp Roth’s novels....
...Barry O’Callaghan, chief executive, and Michael Muldowney, chief financial officer, told staff on Friday morning that an amendment to its credit agreement would “ensure that our company remains on a solid...
...It is also in talks to lessen its debt burden through the sale of its small trade publishing arm, which includes Philip Roth’s novels and the Curious George children’s books....
...Philip Roth or Benjamin Franklin. How do you relax? My muse is a cruel mistress – a voice in your head that tells you you should be writing....
...Indignation By Philip Roth Jonathan Cape £16.99, 233 pages Stepping back from his recent novels of rage against age, the grand old man of American literature takes his readers back to campus life in the...
...Athill’s exposition on sex is the opposite of Philip Roth’s Viagra-charged 71-year-old protagonist Coleman Silk (The Human Stain)....
...He began talks with potential partners for a counter-bid, eventually finding allies in Barry Sternlicht’s Starwood Capital and Neil Bluhm’s Walton Street Capital, but losing Cerberus Capital Management,...
...Run by Steven Roth, Vornado in 2005 participated in the high-profile $5.5bn private equity buy-out of Toys R Us, the specialty toy retailer in which it now owns a 32.9 per cent stake....
...There is more vitality, if less worth, in The Ringer ( Barry W. Blaustein, ★★☆☆☆) and Hostel (Eli Roth, ★★☆☆☆)....
...EVERYMAN by Philip Roth Jonathan Cape ₤10, 192 pages An unnamed protagonist rages against the dying of the light in this furious rant about the ravages of old age by one of the literary totems of the US...
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