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...Mania by Lionel Shriver (Borough Press/Harper)Never shy of getting stuck in, Shriver now sets her satirical sights on groupthink and the policing of thought....
...Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophyby David J Chalmers, Allen Lane £25/WW Norton $32 Tech companies are busily building an alternative virtual reality in the metaverse....
...An object I would never part with is my Ox Chair, originally by Hans J Wegner....
...For that Hearst brought on Adriano Goldschmied, a jeans producer for Gap, J Crew and Diesel and his own company, AG Jeans....
...Her gallery highlights include Hauser & Wirth (“the most beautiful space”), Jeffrey Deitch (“always quite epic”), Matthew Brown (“a really young, exciting gallerist”) and Harper’s, a New York outfit that...
...As Professor Carl J Richards has documented, America’s Founders explicitly chose to create a republic based on the ancient Roman design....
...and who was the founder of Harpers & Queen magazine....
...Exuding effortless cool in a Supreme x Mary J Blige T-shirt, Celine velvet waistcoat, jeans and Clarks Wallabee boots, she describes herself as a “worker bee”....
...‘The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It’, by Sandra J Sucher and Shalene Gupta “Trust me, I am a business executive.”...
...Baz Luhrmann’s hit romantic film.From November 12, moulinrougemusical.co.uk To Kill a MockingbirdGielgud Theatre, LondonRafe Spall stars as lawyer Atticus Finch in Aaron Sorkin’s stage play based on the Harper...
...Built in Oundle, it was styled in Monaco by the Italian yacht designer Alberto Mancini, with naval architecture courtesy of the redoubtable J&J Design from Ljubljana....
...Perhaps the most important novelty, however, is that they will be the first administration to follow Donald J Trump, who has rewritten (some would argue, incinerated) the rules of US politics....
...The photographer, who died in September at the age of 74, had a long, illustrious and trusting relationship with the house, built upon both advertising campaigns – from J’Adore, with a sashaying Charlize...
...I’d read Mockingbird, Charles J Shields’ 2006 biography of Harper Lee, and had been shocked to learn the extent to which Capote benefited from Lee’s work — her interviews and observations — and how closely...
...The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life, by Charles J Shields, University of Texas Press, RRP£23.99/$29.95 The book of 2013 was Stoner, a 1965 novel by US writer...
...On Wednesday, the UK’s competition regulator announced its preliminary verdict on J Sainsbury’s move to acquire Asda....
...He found his focus in 2005 in an article by Howard Gossage called “How to Look at Billboards” (from a 1960 issue of Harper’s)....
...Shields, who already brought proper gumshoe reporting to previous biographies of Harper Lee and Kurt Vonnegut, questions this account....
...Trade adviser Peter Navarro also came out swinging, telling Fox News: “There’s a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with President Donald J Trump and then tries...
...The dinner was held outside, across the street from the Richard J Riordan Central Library, on a gorgeous balmy night....
...Freakonomics by Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner....
...Sir, Anyone who has recently published a book can tell Michael J Higgins (Letters, August 17) that publishers need colons and subtitles even if authors do not....
...The End of the World Running Club, by Adrian J Walker, Del Rey, RRP£7.99 After an asteroid strike destroys most of Britain, Ed finds himself separated from his wife and children....
...She is, of course, one of America’s most celebrated recluses, along with the late J D Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye — and the fact that she also created, in the character of Boo Radley, one of literature...
...Monday’s double bill at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was equally strong, with unadorned modernism from US saxophonist J.D....
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