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...Readers, including me, seize upon them for Christmas shopping, or browse for the pleasure of noting that the writers we loved, from Zadie Smith to RF Kuang to Salman Rushdie, are cherished by others....
...this May — and a profusion of forthcoming books includes A Cage Went in Search of a Bird, short stories inspired by Kafka and written by authors including Tommy Orange, Helen Oyeyemi, Elif Batuman and Ali Smith...
...Take a break from the news For an actor who has worked successfully on stage and screen for six decades, the stratospheric success of Succession and its central character Logan Roy was both a blessing and...
...Manulife chief executive Roy Gori said the buyback would take the amount of capital released by the group to C$10bn since 2018, as part of a simplification of the business....
...For much of his career, Katz has been considered less consequential than peers such as Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly. (Katz’s auction record of £3.4mn is less than a tenth of their top prices.)...
...Taken together, their books are bringing Asia to the centre of the map of global history, writes Nilanjana Roy. Additional contributions from Grace Ramos and Gordon Smith...
...Additional contributions from Irwin Cruz and Gordon Smith...
...More recently, Sophie and Rowley Edwards, friends of Cecilia’s grandson Jasper de Trafford, stepped up to run the pottery and rejuvenate it for a modern audience....
...Letter in response to this article: Flag-of-convenience system holed below the waterline / From Jacqueline Smith, Maritime Coordinator, The International Transport Workers’ Federation, London SE1, UK...
...Playwright Roy Williams says: “With every fibre of her being, she adores theatre.”...
...history’s white men: Paul Klee, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg....
...Be self-disciplined Regular outings to see exhibitions in Los Angeles or New York by Mark Rothko (who crops up in Corita’s photographs), Jasper Johns and Robert Motherwell all fed into her practice....
...Take a break from the news Unlike Logan Roy, Succession creator Jesse Armstrong knows when to call it a day....
...Arguably, Connor Roy (played by Alan Ruck) — Logan Roy’s eldest son by his first marriage and the one least interested in the family business — is the Roy sibling with the most comfortable status....
...Aesop’s business, growing 50 per cent in 2022, with 10 different scents (from £110) now in its roster and some of the more recent ones designed by nose Barnabé Fillion, who has created scents for Paul Smith...
...But already word processors and dictation software have replaced Smith’s role; perhaps creative writing software isn’t that far from replacing the Mrs Cartlands of today....
...And FT columnist Nilanjana Roy talks about what makes a great book club....
...One assumes the media nonagenarian Rupert Murdoch, newly betrothed to the comely Ann Lesley Smith, 26 years his junior, must be feeling positively spry this week....
...Additional reporting by Colby Smith...
...Disney has enjoyed unusual privileges in Florida for decades through a special taxation district created following a successful lobbying effort by Walt and Roy Disney in the 1960s....
...Lulu Smith is our producer. Special shoutout to the two of them this week. Molly Nugent is our contributing producer....
...Separately, former Bloomberg Media chief executive Justin Smith and ex-New York Times media columnist Ben Smith have raised about $25mn for another high-end digital news start-up called Semafor....
...The FT’s Harry Dempsey and DD’s Rob Smith have dug into the scandal....
...Field Day’s bill was superbly programmed overall, with multi-genre standouts including London rave’s rising star Jasper Tygner, Detroit techno-soul dons Carl Craig and Moodymann, and “K-house” DJ/producer...
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