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...Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux (W&N/Crown Currency) It’ll be a while before a definitive account of the cryptocurrency phenomenon appears, but Bloomberg reporter...
...On the recommendation of Ava Gardner, O’Neill was introduced into Frank Sinatra’s entourage and became his main photographer for several decades....
...If you haven’t yet read Time Shelter (W&N/Liveright) by Georgi Gospodinov, winner of this year’s International Booker Prize, a treat awaits: it’s a brilliant, elegiac and darkly humorous story of memory...
...By Yasmin Khan (Bloomsbury, £26) Bress ‘N’ Nyam: Gullah Geechee Recipes From a Sixth-Generation Farmer A Gullah Geechee phrase meaning “bless and eat”, Bress ‘n’ Nyam chronicles chef Matthew Raiford’s...
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...David Gardner argues that universities are risking their reputations through their links to oppressive regimes What you’ve been saying India is getting ready to use its EVMs again: letter from N K Unnikrishnan...
...“Tying a scarf to a bag is an easy and creative way to customise and bring new life to it,” says accessories hall buying manager Josie Gardner....
...They researched the merits of using either the word vata n, which loosely translates to the homeland, or millet, which means the people of the nation, in campaign signs. They chose the latter....
...The best souvenirs I’ve brought home are exquisitely embroidered cushions from Emporio Le Sirenuse, Carla Sersale’s shop at Le Sirenuse Hotel in Positano....
...David Gardner, the FT’s international affairs editor, examines what this means for Turkey, Germany and the EU. (FT)...
...In Beirut, some TV stations and their news anchors have in sympathy started to wear t-shirts showing the letter N for Nazarenes, the letter daubed by Isis on Christian homes in Mosul in their Nazi-like purge...
...The lyrics are dense and dark, White sings like Robert Plant on the verge of hysteria and the songs lasso together his various musical interests: blues, 1970s rock, rock ‘n’ roll, country....
...After yet another of their periodic public spats, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are trying – yet again – to mend fences, this time on the margins of the U.N. poverty conference in New York....
...Published by Harry N Abrams...
...features images from an impressive roll call of the fashion world’s coolest photographers, along with 50 interviews about Gaultier’s work and influence from collaborators and muses such as Catherine Deneuve, Carla...
...BeyondBrics: The gap between the well-fed and the rest n food, as in most things, some people are more equal than others, writes BeyondBrics’ Stefan Wagstyl....
...() The textured minimalism and downplayed emotions of Carla Bley’s Lost Chords, were soporific in comparison....
...Higonnet’s entertaining subjects range from Isabella Stewart Gardner to the de Menils and Ronald Lauder....
...France’s first lady Carla Bruni raised eyebrows in July when she sang about her husband Nicolas Sarkozy on her album Comme Si De Rien N’Était, describing the President of the French Republic as deadlier...
...There was a small record shop in the town centre and I asked for a factory-fresh copy of Comme si de rien n’était, out the previous day. Blank looks. The new Carla Bruni CD, I said. Blanker still....
...The ballpoint pen series – perhaps the most notorious example is a portrait of Carla Bruni, “Ceci n’est pas Carla” – was also inspired by long spells in the Soviet army....
...Ironically entitled “Comme si de rien n’était” (As if nothing was happening), the album contains 14 huskily whispered ballads including love songs to her husband....
...His waiting list includes the Stones-mad French president, Nicolas Sarkozy: “I met him and Gordon Brown and he was desperately trying to put me on the phone with Carla Bruni....
...Words were also a problem for the American trio Two Foot Yard, made up of the wonderfully emotive violinist Carla Kihlstedt, cello and minimalist drums....
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