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...Later, realising we never discussed the Booker, for which she has been nominated three times, I email her: “Prizes, and especially the Booker, generally help bring books to the attention of more readers....
...The events of the murder trial were later dramatised in a 2016 FX television series, The People v OJ Simpson: American Crime Story....
...But it was only from the end of the 19th century, when the Swedish Grace, art nouveau and arts and crafts movements illuminated the value of historic practice, that pewter was appreciated as a material worthy...
...On TikTok, #grandpacore — a trend describing clobber synonymous with seniors, such as V-neck novelty knits, pleat-front trousers and tweed blazers — has had almost 16mn views....
...In Emma Donoghue’s bestselling, Booker-shortlisted novel Room (2010) — which she successfully adapted into an Oscar-nominated film — a young woman is kept captive and sexually assaulted for years yet manages...
...Powerful Menendez colleagues, including New Jersey’s other US senator, Cory Booker, have called for him to resign his seat in Congress....
...A section on “cultural nationalisms” ranges through a depiction of a Hopi corn dance, posters for the National Park Service, Charles White’s double portrait of “Sojourner Truth and Booker T Washington” —...
...Until August 25; further information and tickets here From Maria Callas to Elton John via Grace Jones and Cher, Diva celebrates “the power and creativity of iconic performers” across art, fashion, film,...
...Here is a quiet man who elevates routine to an almost spiritual level, and understands “the pleasures of efficiency, the potential for grace in the achievement of creature comforts”....
...Additional contributions by Benjamin Wilhelm and Grace Ramos...
...The quality of democracy enjoyed by an average global citizen in 2022 is back to the levels of 1986, according to the V-Dem Institute, which assesses democracies’ health on five principles: electoral, liberal...
...Manto is explaining the story of Tipu Sultan’s wooden tiger, which lives in the V&A, to Rooney and Ali....
...“The beauty of African fashion is that it is as varied as the continent itself,” says Dr Christine Checinska, who curated the V&A’s recent exhibition Africa Fashion (now at the Brooklyn Museum until October...
...But something shifted when I came across the lilac cover of the Booker-nominated Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi last year....
...And the coup de grâce came in Karachi this week in a style unthinkable to past generations....
...They have two children, Chloe and Grace....
...The Korean Wave” exhibition at the V&A Lola Shoneyin Writer and festival organiser by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Lola Shoneyin’s subversion is deliciously sly, her humour mordant, her eyes pitiless and...
...In March, she was longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for Heaven. With such macabre preoccupations, one might imagine her writing room to be a cavern....
...With Audrey Magee’s The Colony on the Booker longlist, 2022 is turning out to be a fine year for fiction set on isolated Irish isles....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...It is my expectation that we show all of our colleagues the grace, respect, and dignity they have earned....
...Giving a speech in an open collar, khaki trousers and with a V-neck cardigan under his jacket, he looks like a man making an immense effort. The famous shot of him tapping at a keyboard in a (fitted!)...
...On the court and off, when you see them carry themselves with such grace, it leaves an indelible impression....
...He took those things with such good grace.”...
...Then, with a soft whine, the battery-powered craft ascends vertically, hovers aloft for a few seconds and flies off into the distance with surprising grace....
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