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...As she’s thinking about it, the desert island ideal grows in its appeal: “I should really go away somewhere and just take Ulysses. “If you look at James Joyce you see a very pure artist,” she says....
...They tend to rely on family and friends. That can trap them in a cycle of poverty....
...A bearded shepherd appeared with his flock, coming round a bend in the trail. He was carrying a long crook and a cute, doe-eyed lamb across his shoulders....
...She believes that her college friend is innocent and that Wigdor has blown past the boundaries of legitimate advocacy and created a new injustice....
...He managed to escape from the office on the night of St Patrick’s Day to celebrate at a nearby Irish pub named after James Joyce....
...Meanwhile in London, Rossbach, a stranger who’d been contacted by Kostya’s parents through a mutual friend, was fighting the Home Office to get him a visa, and trying to get him some education....
...Think of Joseph Conrad, or James Joyce. Had the Polish seafarer and the itinerant Irishman never packed their suitcases, their novels could not have been written....
...He’s talking to me and our deputy books editor, Laura Battle, about his summer book picks. And as you heard, one of them is the audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce....
...Follow the River Truro south of the Cornish capital — down through light-industrial units and car mechanics, past mudbanks silvered by watery winter sunlight — and, between a metal scrapyard and gas storage...
...Among others, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Keats, Shakespeare, Dickens and the un-English Rainer Maria Rilke, walk and talk in her pages — while James Joyce is present through Smith’s heady addiction...
...I enjoy the company of my friends Michael Kitchen, David Suchet, David Jason, John Nettles and Martin Clunes, with a bit of Nordic noir on Netflix at 2am....
...An altogether less sinister form of parent-child friction is to be found in A Postcard to Ollis (Wacky Bee, RRP£6.99) by Ingunn Thon....
...Post Office said she had to pay the money back and deducted £300 a month from her wages for the next 10 months. Yet deficits continued to appear and mount up....
...By practising the art of artifice, he elevated his friends to the level of minor deities, exotic as rare orchids, shimmering, iridescent, otherworldly, but in so doing he was also transforming himself, making...
...“I’ve met a few extraordinary women in my life and she’s definitely right up there on that list.” Next week, Flowers will celebrate 50 years in the art world....
...support; Janet Flanner, the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent; Jane Heap, who was a co-editor, with Margaret Anderson, of the New York-based magazine The Little Review, which first serialised James Joyce...
...By the early 1960s, the natural destination for such a bookish girl might have been university. Instead, to the horror of her parents, she said she “wanted to be a nun”....
...It was there that producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis heard Dave jamming with friends....
...Dublin’s Holles Street maternity hospital, run by Rhona Mahony, enjoys fame for its role in James Joyce’s Ulysses....
...“I want to take it seriously because he’s a friend, and he’s made a very big decision with his life.”...
...David Pilling is the FT’s Africa editor Illustration by James Ferguson...
...Douglas Coupland’s new collection of stories and essays ‘Bit Rot’ is published by William Heinemann (£20) Illustrations by James Joyce...
...The group may be feeling a bit left out of current M&A fun and games after larger rival Friends Life agreed to be acquired by Aviva....
...He describes his wife of 45 years dying of cancer, and then proving the survival of her spirit by fixing the result of a horse race the next Saturday....
...He was educated at King’s College School in Wimbledon and at Oxford, where he studied English and made cash by buying minor works at Christie’s and selling them to friends’ parents....
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