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...Taylor, who lives in Hell’s Kitchen in New York, has just finished the screenplay for Real Life which will star Kid Cudi as lead character, Wallace....
...“This is an unthinkable tragedy,” said Baltimore mayor Brandon Scott....
...After I’d had enough of McAllister’s diktats, I dived into To Marry an English Lord (1989) by Gail MacColl and Carol McD Wallace, which partly inspired Fellowes’ previous series, Downton Abbey....
...White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said Stoltenberg had done “a fantastic job” to bring Nato together. But she added that Biden “hasn’t made any decision yet” on a successor....
...White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Friday said Biden hoped to deepen “the close and historic relationship and partnership” between the UK and US....
...Meanwhile, former Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis has been appointed Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice replacing Dominic Raab....
...By handing cabinet roles to defence secretary Ben Wallace, former Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis and foreign affairs select committee chair Tom Tugendhat, as well as some on the right, she would...
...Jake Berry was given the role of Conservative party chair, while Ben Wallace remained defence secretary, one of the few holdovers from the Johnson cabinet....
...In “Filthy Animals”, the story from which Brandon Taylor’s impressive first collection takes its title, an act of shocking violence cuts short a night of teenage partying....
...Brandon Taylor’s Booker-longlisted Real Life might just as easily have been titled Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race....
...Family trauma plays its part in Brandon Taylor’s Real Life (Daunt Originals £9.99) but at the centre of the novel is Wallace, a young, black biochemist transplanted from his childhood home in Alabama to...
...Real Life, by Brandon Taylor, Daunt Books, RRP£9.99, 326 pages On the face of it, Real Life is a campus novel in the tradition of The Secret History or Normal People....
...In the week I read Real Life I carried its hero Wallace with me everywhere, wishing better things for him, better friends specifically. People who were his equals....
...Along the way, he bought a £4m house in Chelsea, was appointed chair of the Wallace Collection of fine art and, much to his delight, has become a British citizen....
...Having sacked Julian Smith from the Northern Ireland Office over past Brexit disagreements, Mr Johnson promoted the former security minister Brandon Lewis to take his place, handing him his first cabinet...
...The poet Wallace Stevens wrote: “You touch the hotel the way you touch moonlight” in Arrival at the Waldorf. It sounds romantic but, of course, you cannot touch moonlight....
...secretary — Julian Smith replaces Karen Bradley Scottish secretary — Alister Jack replaces David Mundell Welsh secretary — Alun Cairns (no change) Conservative party chairman — James Cleverly replaces Brandon...
...(Politico) Trade talk There are few if any precedents for undoing a trade agreement, but Pierre-Louis Vézina argues that given that, on average, bilateral trade is around 40 per cent larger after trade...
...In the late David Foster Wallace’s famous phrasing, he fused Metallica and Mozart. The adaptation and reinvention does not stop....
...Photographs: Rex Features; Getty Images; Pierre Ange Carlotti...
...Colour is also key to the work of Wallace Sewell, a London-based design studio established by Harriet Wallace-Jones and Emma Sewell....
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