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...Reviewers compared him to Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and John Irving. But Hill is very much his own man. If The Nix is a tough act to follow, Wellness proves he’s got the chops....
...At the very end of the 18th century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim...
...She took out a butcher’s cleaver from her dress and smashed the glass on a portrait of the historian Thomas Carlyle....
...Pandemics end when they “change from something that we as a society deem to be unacceptable, into things that can be fatal, but just in the background”, said Erica Charters, associate professor of the history...
...For Winona’s adoptive father is Thomas McNulty, narrator of Days Without End, which won the 2016 Costa Book of the Year....
...Not forgetting Hilary Mantel’s “magnificent finale” to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Enjoy!...
...A new book from Erica Heller, the daughter of Catch-22’s Joseph Heller, takes a similarly tasty premise as its starting point....
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...It has been followed by the likes of Thomas Savage’s fierce novel The Power of the Dog, first published in 1967 and reissued in 2016....
...I recommend Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, to me the most profound novel of the 20th century. It is about illness (tuberculosis) and death....
...The Afterlives , by Thomas Pierce, Blackfriars Books, RRP£14.99/Riverhead, RRP$27, 384 pages Erica Wagner is author of ‘Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge’ (Bloomsbury) Join our online...
...that Remains: A Life in Death, by Sue Black, Doubleday, RRP£16.99, 368 pages Natural Causes: Life, Death and the Illusion of Control, by Barbara Ehrenreich, Granta, RRP£14.99/ Twelve, RRP$27, 256 pages Erica...
...She has written about Shelley and Dickens and Thomas Hardy; about Austen and Katherine Mansfield and Dora Jordan, actress and mistress of the Duke of Clarence, later King William IV....
...But matters are beginning to coalesce under the supervision of RSC deputy artistic director Erica Whyman, with the periodic Mischief mini-festivals serving as flagship events....
...Privation, violence and hardship stalk Thomas McNulty’s life as he carves out a place for himself along the American frontier....
...“There’s renewed interest in buying precious metals as a safe haven,” Erica Rannestad, analyst at Thomson Reuters GFMS, says. “The big question is how long that will persist and drive prices.”...
...Thomas Jay Ryan is a particular delight as the country doctor, Shpigelsky. Dinklage offers a sonorous speaking voice and fine physical bearing. classicstage.org...
...The season takes its name, “Roaring Girls”, from Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker’s Jacobean comedy (c1610) centred on Moll Cutpurse – less the historical figure born Mary Frith than the legend that persisted...
...The Kempers can be found in the history books as can several others: Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson’s disgraced vice-president, best-known for his fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton; and General Wilkinson,...
...Thomas Simons, an economist at Jefferies, said: The increase in the workweek is encouraging and suggests that overall economic growth accelerated late in Q1....
...“A few years ago casinos were very much made up of super-rich Middle East customers playing roulette,” says Erica Young, the commission’s casino expert....
...For Farmer was integral in bringing to fruition the “Gramsci Monument”, the latest work by Swiss-born artist Thomas Hirschhorn....
...Thomas Hirschhorn’s South Bronx installation brilliantly embodies the belief that art should be part of everyday life...
...Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid, adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, vies equally for big laughs – and frequently achieves them....
...But at the end of our days there, I couldn’t help but to think back to my classmates at Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio....
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