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...s Flaubert’s Parrot, Iain Banks’s The Wasp Factory, Anita Desai’s In Custody and a whole handful of others....
...In the sense that Madonna, with her constant churn of images and styles, is like a female Bowie, we might see her as a Mick, and when reading an FT interview with Joyce Carol Oates, it struck me that she...
...Alan Joyce will step down as head of Australia’s national carrier Qantas after 15 years in charge. Chief financial officer Vanessa Hudson will step in as CEO....
...Literary fiction can hold loneliness (as exemplified by the novels of Anita Brookner) and plotlessness (Rachel Cusk’s Outline trilogy springs to mind)....
...“Good puzzle would be [to] cross Dublin without passing a pub,” wrote James Joyce in Ulysses. But social mores and habits are changing....
...I also rely on my Mason Pearson hairbrush – in pink, so that I can find it at the bottom of my bag – and my mother-of-pearl Alexandre de Paris barrettes....
...Dublin’s Holles Street maternity hospital, run by Rhona Mahony, enjoys fame for its role in James Joyce’s Ulysses....
...But minutes after Mr Joyce defended the treaty, the government withdrew the vote in parliament....
...Joe Joyce, the art student turned boxer, guaranteed himself a medal. He defeated Kazakhstan’s Ivan Dychko in his semi final by unanimous decision in the men’s super heavyweight division....
...In the blazing sun earlier in the day, Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk added more than a metre to her own world record in the hammer throw, achieving a distance of 82.29m....
...The last British medal was earned by the art student-turned-boxer Joe Joyce. He could only manage silver after losing to France’s Tony Yoka in the final of the men’s super heavyweight division....
...At Lakmé Fashion Week, international designers such as Australian duo Easton Pearson are showing for the first time, while high street favourites Miss Selfridge and River Island are presenting their autumn...
...It had dominated Canadian politics during the 20th century, with long-serving prime ministers such as Wilfrid Laurier, Mackenzie King, Lester Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau....
...“Odysseus turns up again and again, until he reaches a modern apotheosis in James Joyce’s Ulysses, as the common man....
...It’s a gloomy day on the high street, and not just because Dame Anita Roddick died last night....
...Doctorow, Canaan’s Tongue by John Wray, The Last Days of Dogtown by Anita Diamant, and Speak Right On by Mary E. Neighbour....
...Anita Wong at Joyce says for daytime “it’s long and lean . . . think 1950s capri pants, slimline pants, old Hollywood screen sirens”....
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