Hints and tips:
...He was not even reading my messages.” When Bankman-Fried finally broke his silence, it was to announce that Binance had agreed to buy FTX. But it was little more than a handshake....
...Recommended reading (and listening) Talking of DeSantis, I enjoyed this New Yorker profile of him by Dexter Filkins....
...We happen to have a list, in his own handwriting, of the readings he assigned....
...The seven songs presented include a sultry bossa reading of “Manhã De Carnival”, an up-tempo blues and the swinging “I Want More”....
...Swampians who missed Dexter Filkins’ 2013 New Yorker profile of Qassem Soleimani, the assassinated head of Iran’s Quds Force, should do so now....
...Elton John probably grew up, like me, reading the kids’ comics Beano or Dandy. He is basically a comicbook character — or his rock persona is....
...Recommended reading My column this week looks at the gathering storm around Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer....
...What we’re reading Facebook’s dangerous balancing act in Asia Long before Christopher Wylie blew the whistle on how Cambridge Analytica had obtained Facebook data, harvested from 50m people and allegedly...
...Meanwhile, here’s what I’ve been reading: A below-the-radar House Judiciary race may determine how the Democratic Party thinks about monopoly power and Big Tech....
...In the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins had a long profile of the prince. Saudi Arabia is doing its best to make his prediction of higher oil prices come true....
...Yet watching The Philadelphia Story for the first or the 27th time and hearing CK Dexter Haven tell his ex-wife Tracy Lord: “You’ll never be a first-class human being or a first-class woman until you’ve...
...Lightsey stamped his personality on the proceedings from the first number, a rather sedate Latin reading of Duke Ellington’s “Solitude”....
...After reading A Shropshire Lad, the American poet Robert Lowell said that Housman “foresaw the Somme”. How else to account for the morbid preoccupation with doomed youth?...
...Lindsay Anderson was David Storey’s go-to man; John Dexter, Arnold Wesker’s....
...Other highlights have included Tracey Emin spending all day in the gallery reading poetry with her choice, Billy Childish, her former boyfriend, and Colin Hall (Tony Bevan’s choice) lounging in a four-poster...
...Before that it was with Dexter. The wine stayed the same. How would you earn your living if you had to give up writing? I was a very good temp....
...However, he reportedly tried and failed to lure big-name writers such as Ryan Lizza and Dexter Filkins from The New Yorker....
...When reading the contents makes you salivate, you know you have a winner....
...The detail in the drawings will repay countless re-readings....
...But we see both him, in his flashy 1970s suit, and Sally Dexter’s Gertrude, barefoot and dishevelled, as if through Hamlet’s eyes....
...The birth of mobile phones; the dawn of New Labour; and Emma and the handsome Dexter Mayhew (Jim Sturgess) riding out the epochs....
...As well as a constantly changing round of exhibitions that showcase the work of West Country painters, sculptors and designers, it puts on the occasional musical performance and poetry reading....
...The chilly Minnesota settings are well evoked, adolescent emotions are sensitively treated and its bookish central characters make reading look super-cool....
...“The way I was brought up [on a council estate in Reading] there was nobility in poverty.”...
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