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...The latest book from Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults , comes out in Ann Goldstein’s English translation in June (Europa Editions RRP£20/$26), while in the same month shrewd contemporary satirist...
...Animals Strike Curious Poses, by Elena Passarello, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12.99/Sarabande Books, RRP$19.95, 256 pages Melissa Harrison is the author of ‘Rain: Four Walks in English Weather’ (Faber) Join our...
...I ask him, sometime later, if music shouldn’t have spoken for itself that night — after all, he had just conducted a German orchestra through works by Edward Elgar and Harrison Birtwistle, two of Britain...
...Lucy Kellaway FT columnist The only thing wrong with the fourth volume of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet — the story of an intense, lethal friendship between two women — is that it is the last one....
...Melissa Harrison Author of At Hawthorn Time , shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Sometimes a writer at the peak of their powers expands what literature is able to achieve, and this was the case...
...The aperitif for the evening was Two Cat Songs by the contemporary Russian composer Elena Langer to sardonic texts by her compatriot, the avant-garde satirist Daniil Kharms....
...… Harrison Birtwistle: Wild Tracks, by Fiona Maddocks, Faber, RRP£22.50 Birtwistle, now 80, has spent the better part of a lifetime evading interviewers’ questions....
...Back at home, Lito’s mother, Elena, tries to cope with the inevitable loss by immersing herself in books....
...Earlier this year, when the Royal Opera premiered Harrison Birtwistle’s The Minotaur, more than 12,000 tickets were sold over six almost sell-out performances at Covent Garden....
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