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...Rodham defeats African-American and fellow Democrat Carol Moseley Braun in the Illinois state primary, and from there is elected to the Senate....
...She makes even those books I recall not much enjoying (DeLillo’s Mao II, Roth’s The Human Stain) sound fresh and remarkable....
...Starring Florence Pugh, who turned heads in 2014 with an all-too-brief performance in Carol Morley’s The Falling, Lady Macbeth is a powerhouse 19th-century chamber piece in which the bride of a well-to-do...
...It was a movie that revelled in its movieness, a pop-culture pastiche that did for the crime genre exactly what Carol director Todd Haynes has done for melodrama: find out what works, cut off the flab, hire...
...Liebling was drawn to boxing, but so were Joyce Carol Oates and William Hazlitt, neither of whom is easily pictured doing high-speed pad work amid buckets of bloodied spit in a basement gym....
...Gone here is the frustrated veteran, depicted, say, in the later fiction of Philip Roth. Angell is zen-like....
...There are a few lively episodes: Updike’s unfashionable pro-war stance regarding Vietnam; his friendship with Philip Roth and its painful break; his growing fame and wealth; and attempts to grapple with...
...On the Fed’s likely first chairwoman, on Wednesday: - Why I’m Very Happy About Janet Yellen – Justin Wolfers, Bloomberg - Why I’m Not Very Happy About Janet Yellen – Carol Roth, CNBC - Obama’s Nomination...
...Carol Chomsky, his wife and a fellow linguist, died in 2008. “Since then I’ve dived into work.” I ask whether this was a deliberate, escapist decision....
...E-mails from Philip Roth, John Updike and Edmund White, among others, sustain her....
...Joseph Roth of Ikea says long-term investing in solar power – helped by the falling cost of panels and incentives from the federal and state governments – “makes very good sense to us as a business”....
...JC Penney, the mid-price US department store, has appointed Bill Ackman, the activist investor, and Steven Roth, chairman of Vornado, the real estate company, to its board, while announcing steps aimed at...
...Exit Ghost By Philip Roth Jonathan Cape £16.99, 304 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 The final curtain comes down on Nathan Zuckerman, veteran narrator of nine Roth novels....
...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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