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...Jacobson, with glorious chutzpah, gives Shylock his Act V, and the end when it comes is extremely satisfying....
...album Customs and Fashions of the Turks (created while on trade mission to Constantinople), a monumental tapestry recounting the Habsburg victory at Tunis (the most expensive work of art Emperor Charles V...
...Smoked salmon sandwiches for lunch every day: how was that going to square me with the gentiles?...
...It is usually initiated by elites (King George V took a keen interest in Remembrance). It nearly always has a purpose other than not forgetting something or someone....
...KALOOKI NIGHTS by Howard Jacobson Jonathan Cape ₤17.99, 480 pages V.S. Pritchett once identified in the novels of Saul Bellow a strain of comedy tinged with “fatality”....
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