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...Tayou has been prescient in his exploration of potent themes such as the ambiguous effects of globalisation and mass consumption, says Gemma Rodrigues, curator of the Global Arts of Africa at the Johnson...
...That one, acquired from Gertrude Stein’s collection, may fetch $70m....
...The other was Gertrude Jekyll who, not known for her compliments, described Willmott as the “greatest living woman gardener”....
...Elsewhere, she is on solid ground when she draws on examples from her own research, with illuminating portraits of Woodrow Wilson (one of the chief subjects of her 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize-winner Peacemakers...
...Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Malory, Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, bel canto opera, French classical music, the myth of Sisyphus....
...The Unravelling is shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction and it is a book with a rare perspective....
...Gertrude Stein quipped that things are either worthless or priceless....
...Gertrude Leonard, a retiree whose flat overlooks the scene, was taking out the trash when she heard the gunshots. She says that although she abhors looting, the cops had responded too aggressively....
...The museum, I learn, was founded by Henry Whitney, an oil heir, and Gertrude Whitney, great-granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt, a man who made his fortune in railways and shipping....
...He laughed and added, “There’s a little bit of Gertrude Stein: ‘What’s the use of being a little boy if you are going to grow up to be a man?’”...
...Five Cities, by Rem Koolhaas, Amuti Editions, RRP£20 Released as loose leaflets in a box, inspired by BS Johnson’s The Unfortunates (1969), these essays can be read in any order....
...This was not an exclusively American thing: Samuel Johnson observed in the 18th century that the city held writers in uncommon regard....
...Outside City Hall, the newly elected mayor, Boris Johnson, addresses the crowds and assembled media. “Err, well, gosh. I mean. Err. Well. What, what can I…?...
...Tree of Smoke By Denis Johnson Picador £16.99, 614 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Winner of the 2007 National Book Award for fiction, Johnson’s gargantuan novel serves up a grisly feast of rogue CIA agents...
...The esteem prize went to James Shapiro’s 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - winner of the 2006 Samuel Johnson award....
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