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...And what a meal it is: Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, the 44th documentary from Frederick Wiseman, focuses on a renowned three-Michelin-star restaurant in Ouches, central France....
...Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (Jonathan Cape)Ever since Barrett’s short-story collection Young Skins appeared in 2014, the publishing world has been awaiting his novel....
...The English language version of I Am the Wind debuted at the Young Vic in London in 2011, while Georg Friedrich Haas’s operatic adaptation of his story Morning and Evening was praised for its brooding, existentialist...
...Lauren Young’s fruity Baba and Robin Bailey’s Sellem were well in the picture....
...But he is in a creative funk, and there are already official doubts about the suitability of a libretto about an ageing queen infatuated with a young lord....
...Young Clive lives in a seedy bedsit with his loveless father and Christmas is just a spindly plastic tree, a few scraps of tinsel and an unwanted Action Man doll....
...Within, Wilde rails against the creations of the fashion house of Charles Frederick Worth — the Dior of its day, which invented the notion of the designer label and fashion seasons — and against fashionable...
...In 1832, she enrolled in Prudence Crandall’s School for Young Ladies and Misses in Canterbury, Connecticut. The backlash was brutal and swift....
...It’s something that plays out too in Frederick Wiseman’s documentary Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, which pays reverent attention to the kitchen’s chain of command....
...Unlike some other fire-ravaged places, Fort McMurray had a young population trained in the petroleum industry’s disaster and fire scenarios, with very few elderly and infirm inhabitants....
...Winning a young-artist prize through the 2017 Royal Academy of Art’s Summer Exhibition “really helped my career”, she says....
...In “Letting Go” (2017), the artist paints a young man in a sunflower yellow shirt....
...Since moving in, the couple have welcomed a son and found a surprisingly tight-knit community, including many young families like their own....
...The Lock-Up by John Banville (Faber/Hanover Square Press)The third title in Banville’s crime series sees the return of Detective Inspector St John Strafford to investigate the suspicious “suicide” of a young...
...Frederick StudemannFT literary editor Judging a book prize means that your reading list is determined for you — and it tends to be a very long one....
...It was acquired in 1903 by Dr Charles Frederick Newcombe — we know his name — a Newcastle-born physician, botanist and ethnographic collector....
...Powell’s programme thus far has been young and diverse, but certain threads run through it....
...Even more disturbing are images of the so-called “Hottentot Venus”, the name given to Saartjie Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from Dutch-ruled Cape Town, who appears barely clad in an 1811 engraving by Frederick...
...Katie Martin FT markets editor The book that really blew me away this year was Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart....
...Slimani is joined by a panel of fellow judges including lecturer and translator Uilleam Blacker, novelist Tan Twan Eng, literary critic Parul Sehgal and the FT’s literary editor Frederick Studemann....
...As the FT’s Frederick Studemann wrote in 2018, she responded to a widespread mood in Germany of Politikverdrossenheit (“being fed up with politics”) by setting up a movement called Aufstehen (“stand up”)...
...Frederick Studemann FT LITERARY EDITOR Much of my reading this year has been taken up with judging a prize that involved reading over 130 books of fiction in translation — so no room for anything else...
...Most went for meaningful work, recognising that the others were “hygiene factors”, identified by the American psychologist Frederick Herzberg as basic requirements which, if inadequate, demotivate us and...
...of the young Mikhail Baryshnikov....
...With work in museum collections worldwide, Julien won an award in 1991 at the Cannes Film Festival for Young Soul Rebels, a thriller set in 1970s London....
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