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...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...True literary heroes, for Amis, lay across the Atlantic: Vladimir Nabokov, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth. And he was out to shock....
...“I really read every damn thing I could find,” from Saul Bellow, James Baldwin and Herman Melville to Tolstoy and Stendhal....
...FS: Last year both Booker Prizes, the French Prix Goncourt and the Nobel Prize for Literature all went to writers from the African continent....
...Phoenix Suns‘ Devin Booker inadvertently paid homage to franchise legend Steve Nash by powering through a match with a busted nose....
...George V’s horse Anmer caused whose death on June 4 1913? Which cocktail is made with vodka and orange juice (above)?...
...Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart, Picador, RRP£14.99, 448 pages Stuart has said that his debut novel — winner of this year’s Booker Prize — was inspired by his own childhood in 1980s Glasgow, and the difficult...
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
...Yet in life the revered Booker and Nobel prizewinning author was famously rebarbative....
...The Man Who Saw Everything , by Deborah Levy, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£14.99/Bloomsbury, RRP$26 In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on Abbey Road while trying to recreate The Beatles’ album cover for his photographer...
...Deborah Levy’s intelligent and supple latest novel, The Man Who Saw Everything, recently longlisted for the Booker Prize, opens in 1988 with narrator Saul Adler planning to cross London’s Abbey Road at the...
...In that case we get the much-discussed V-shaped recovery in the third quarter....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere As the first black woman to win the Booker prize, Bernardine Evaristo deserved to win alone....
...The novel set the enclosure of the asylum in opposition to the wild freedom of the forest beyond and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize....
...On the liberal side, dozens of activists from Group Justice and the pro-choice NARAL, rallied outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, together with senior Democratic lawmakers Kamala Harris, Cory Booker and...
...And it culminated in, I think, 2011 was it - or 10, I think it was, the Man Booker International Prize when - which he won....
...Citi — Tesco’s joint corporate broker — had suspended coverage while acting as an adviser for its acquisition of Booker....
...When he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in 2011, one of the judges, the feminist publisher Carmen Callil, resigned in protest....
...happening Inmarsat led the FTSE 250 gainers after fellow satellite operator Eutelsat pulled out of a partnership with Nasdaq-listed Viasat in favour of developing its own Very High Throughput Satellite (V-HTS...
...No postwar Russian could have guessed the peculiar character of America — that blend of confidence and neurosis — without a dip into Saul Bellow....
...It’s a glamorous do at the V&A....
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...Today’s opinion Simeon Booker, civil rights pioneer and journalist, 1918-2017 The man from Jet who battled Jim Crow Britain faces serious questions on its defence capability In an age of cyber warfare,...
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