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...Kadare’s deep dive into the “enigmas of communism” draws in not just the giants of Russian culture but a host of others, including Freud, Seneca and even Helen of Troy....
...As Helen Brook, a family planning pioneer, later recalled: “To think that at last women could be in charge of themselves, decide for themselves. Women were really going to be free.”...
...Helen Sedwick awoke in her Santa Rosa, California, home about 1:30am on October 9 2017, noticing the night sky glowing and ash falling....
...The only female characters with any presence in this version are Nellie (aka Helen), entrapped to tout for the British in exchange for an abortion, and Anna (aka Andromache), the wretchedly unhappy wife...
...Upstate , by James Wood, Jonathan Cape, RRP£14.99, 240 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘The Jewish Journey: 4000 Years in 22 Objects’ (Ashmolean Museum) Join our online book group on Facebook at...
...Rebecca Abrams, the FT’s reviewer, said: “Few writers hold a more unflinching mirror up to Israeli society....
...Rebecca Abrams is author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) What is Not Yours is Not Yours, by Helen Oyeyemi, Pan Macmillan, RRP£14.99/$27, 176 pages...
...Cockfosters, by Helen Simpson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£15.99, 160 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Illustration by James Albon...
...It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us,” says Helen Alving in Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts. “It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth....
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...Helen Jennings, editor of the pan-African fashion magazine Arise, says that Lagos designers are right at the zeitgeist....
...“Black never goes out of style and can be transformed each season,” says Helen David, head of womenswear at Harrods....
...“It’s 20 years in democracy but things are still the same as the days of apartheid – the issues of unemployment, the issues of crime, the standards of living,” says Abram Mosotho....
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