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...Even aside from being a few miles from the core of Europe’s global city, it had lavish physical assets to work with: the canal, the Victorian brick, the ever-surprising green-ness....
...Living with DH Lawrence by Lara Feigel, Bloomsbury, £20, 272 pages Daisy Hay is the author of ‘Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age’ Join our online book group on Facebook...
...Sleeps up to four, from $200 a night; a cook costs $30 per day (airbnb.com/h/ushawishikilifi) Disappointment A line-item in my annual accounts I’ve just signed off....
...1,868, and counting (h/t to Simon Evans for putting that sheet together)....
...With its bright yellow awning, the Gibert Jeune bookshop on Place Saint Michel in Paris is a familiar landmark to anyone who has ever whiled away a few hours wandering around the Latin Quarter....
...Although Biden will be the oldest president ever to take office, Osnos argues that one of his defining characteristics is an ability to move with the times....
...Hauser & Wirth has also paused plans for a show of the photographer Annie Leibovitz in its H Queen’s gallery in Hong Kong that was due to open at the same time....
...I was not sure it ever would again, considering how outlandish it seemed in 2014....
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...Cooke’s is an explicitly American history, in which issues of race rather than psychological normativity dominate, now more than ever....
...“A big question is whether and how Alibaba will continue without Jack Ma,” Joseph P.H. Fan, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told the Nikkei Asian Review....
...KKR will be in the hands of Scott Nuttall and Joseph Bae. Mr Bae was responsible for building KKR’s Asian business from nothing to the dominant private equity player in the region....
...Sign-up for our Weekend Email here Letter in response to this article: Germany has a largely ceremonial head of state / From A D H Leishman, Cape Town, South Africa...
...Alexander Wang’s world is getting bigger: there are plans to open a flagship store in London next year, an H&M collaboration under way, and an ever growing coterie of famous fans – who else could unite Rihanna...
...Relations between workers and bosses are as bad as ever. Those agitating for unionised workforces have been branded as traitors....
...The art historian Joseph Koerner said that Vienna “created the modern world by scandalising it”. Freud studied the psychosexual, Klimt drew outrageous nudes....
...Shuman has been a supplier of H&M, one of the country’s largest buyers, for 12 years. H&M are, however, ditching suppliers that use multi use facilities, like Rana Plaza was....
...Back in London, the government was (as ever) looking to cut public expenditure, and considered closing Kew....
...Sadly none of those puns made it into a Gates Foundation-backed NBER paper released on Monday (H/T Modeled Behavior): CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF COWS DISPROVES CENTRAL TENETS OF CAPITALISM?...
...But most readers will agree with Joseph Stiglitz, who wrote in his FT review: “Martin Wolf has outdone himself....
...Yet Le Carré works more in the pessimistic tradition of Joseph Conrad and Graham Greene. As good and vital as he is, he’s no Orwell or Wells....
...It was ever thus. To a certain extent....
...Horwitz Roy Joseph John Kim Marie Louise Kirk Hugh Lawson Scott Lebovitz Ericka Leslie Luca M. Lombardi John Mallory Joseph S. Mauro Charles M. McGarraugh Xavier C....
...I have turned to Philip Roth, knowing he hardly ever disappoints....
...To Gen David H. Petraeus, he was “my wise counsel”. Gen Stanley A. McChrystal wrote to him: “Your friendship means more to me than I’ll ever be able to explain.”...
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