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...Saints or sinners, newsworthy names found a welcoming home between W&N covers....
...Tim Shipman reports Downing Street is becoming alarmed that, having appointed Liz Truss as foreign secretary in the hope that she would avoid a trade war with the EU, she is instead increasing the prospect...
...And the character says he’s not an N-word writing about N-words, he’s a fairy writing about fairies. That piece of dialogue, I thought, was really very good, which is why it stuck in my head....
...It was somehow more polite in a restaurant to whisper a minatory “E-N-T” than to make the possibly audible observation “English Next Table”....
...He later hid for years as an alternative healer — as recreated in an astonishing novel by Edna O’Brien. There are degrees of nationalism of course....
...He left W&N in 1967 to become an editorial director at Jonathan Cape. But by this point his marriage was failing and he was growing restless....
...In a candid 1999 New York Times Magazine essay, he grappled with his shame over discovering his use of the word “n***er” in a 1981 letter to a friend....
...Poems by Edna St Vincent Millay are displayed on boards beside the outdoor walks. “She was so bohemian,” the garden’s president, Gregory Long, assured me, the flipside of the groundbreakers’ lives....
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