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...Callil is describing her newly reopened social calendar — drinks with Julian Barnes, a visit with Diana Melly, dinner with Joan Bakewell and Nell Dunn. “And I love meeting young people, actually....
...WHAT TO READ Artists Who Make Books Edited by Andrew Roth, Philip E Aarons and Claire Lehmann (Phaidon)...
...She makes even those books I recall not much enjoying (DeLillo’s Mao II, Roth’s The Human Stain) sound fresh and remarkable....
...Tate Britain is to acquire its earliest work by a female artist, the 17th-century “Portrait of an Unknown Lady” by Joan Carlile....
...Sad because Philip Roth did not get it AGAIN. Clearly, I see this prize as an insult to the world’s greatest living writer today. He will follow Borges path . . ....
...(Coaxing excellence from actors was another speciality: Tim Roth and Ray Winstone got their start with Clarke)....
...Michael Hofmann’s pure, eloquent prose translation of an excerpt from Joseph Roth’s The Radetzky March describes how the blow of his son’s death falls on old Herr von Trotta....
...John Updike and Philip Roth pop their heads in once or twice to make a passing remark; Joan Didion, Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling make equally brief appearances to offer much-quoted aperçus....
...Ernest Hemingway, Joan Didion, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Stephen King. Who would you choose to play you in a film about your life? Someone impossibly good-looking....
...Think Ford Maddox Ford’s The Good Soldier or Philip Roth’s Everyman, each consisting of 192 pack-a-wallop pages....
..., Eva Hesse, Dieter Roth and the Henry Moore family collection, alongside emerging artists such as David Zink Yi or Zhang Enli....
...When Joan Didion in 2005 published The Year of Magical Thinking, which she has now adapted for a 100-minute solo evening starring Vanessa Redgrave as Didion, her detractors were at a disadvantage: how could...
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