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...Hesselberger, a Munich heiress and socialite, was a Jewish-born Christian convert. She bought the painting in 1927, by which time the work had lost its Bronzino attribution....
...Even though freighted with the influence of Conrad, Greene and Maugham, these literary journeys retain a distinctly American irreverence, with Mason producing playful riffs rather than straight-faced pastiches...
...Monday's news that Merkel's struggling heir apparent Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (AKK) will step down as leader of the Christian Democrats and end her chancellorship hopes has sparked a leadership battle...
...An acclaimed novelist and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir The Return , he has just written a book about Sienese painting, a genre of lush, gold-lit Christian art from the 13th to 15th centuries...
...“Like Christian, like communist. What are we talking about?” Well, I say, how would she define the word for herself? “I don’t define it for myself....
...Robinson is that rare beast, American, white, Christian and liberal....
...This was the subject that fascinated Conrad Withey, who worked at Warner Bros in the UK from 2006 to 2014....
...In 1966, his and Wendy’s first child, Conrad, fell into a family friend’s garden stream and drowned. He was two....
...He went native, people say, just like Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. Meanwhile, the human camp is sealed off and sanitised....
...Inviting senior conceptual artists – Mona Hatoum, Christian Marclay – who rarely or never show here, Parker orchestrates the space sparsely and thoughtfully, with a dramatic wall piece by Richard Woods,...
...The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians and Jews under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain, by Darío Fernández-Morera, EDS Publications, RRP£25/ISI Books, RRP$29.95 Medieval Islamic Spain basks...
...This collection of mini-essays warmly endorses books he has been rereading, from his much-favoured Joseph Conrad to the overlooked Olivia Manning. “I wanted to prove I was still alive,” says James....
...My Life with Wagner, by Christian Thielemann, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£25 Coincidence or not, this is the year when Christian Thielemann achieved his life’s ambition....
...The most compelling of Christian Prego’s backdrops verge towards abstraction in lovely Monet water-lily shades....
...The story of Joseph Anton (Rushdie’s code name while in hiding, homage to Joseph Conrad and Anton Chekhov), is of the years of enforced disappearance that the fatwa imposed....
...“We shall run the world’s business whether the world likes it or not,” growls the novel’s Joshua Holroyd, a US millionaire and Christian proselytiser who finances Sulaco’s silver mine....
...“We are likely to have to take a broader look at corporate tax reform next year,” Mr Geithner said at an event organised by the Christian Science Monitor....
...I hope there is a purgatory for children’s story writers who corrupt innocent minds with Christian allegory....
...Here is the uni-ocular Norse god (Wagnerians, think of Wotan) leading the crypto-Christians by the nose to the edge of a lunatic revelation, a fire-baptism of faith, before himself meeting a god’s twilight...
...(The idiom of the report frequently resembles the dockside pidgin spoken in the novels of Joseph Conrad.)...
...Peter Conrad teaches English at Oxford University. His latest book, ‘Islands: A Trip Through Space and Time’ (Thames & Hudson, £14.95), was published earlier this year....
...One beautiful and precise painting by a Christian but scientifically literate artist, William Dyce, meditates on these themes....
...Additional reporting by Christian Oliver in Seoul...
...Dr Francis Collins, genome researcher and Christian believer, barely gets started....
...happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god – whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah – that [McCain’s] opponent wins,” said the pastor, Arnold Conrad...
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