Hints and tips:
...(“We know the sound of the freeway better than we do rivers.”) A dozen distinct yet overlapping stories culminated in a mass shooting at a powwow in Oakland....
...Ackman, who is bright — and aware of it — often ruffles feathers....
...She also coruscates the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford for its insensitivity in displaying tsantas, human heads from Shuar communities in South America “in a narrative of strange and exotic danger [because...
...The other box is given over to temporary exhibitions and contains Ocean Liners: Speed and Style, the show seen at the V&A in London earlier this year: it looks, I think, better here....
...Victoria and Albert Museum As the festival’s official hub, the V&A will host talks about the future of design and a series of installations....
...Viewed as even more degenerate was the debutante Mary Blomfield, who when presented at court refused to curtsy to George V, instead kneeling to implore him to stop torturing women....
...George Pendle is author of ‘Death: A Life’ (Three Rivers) ………………………………………………………....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...It seems a vigorous rebuttal to the recent dismissal of fiction by V.S. Naipaul, to the effect that “if you write a novel…it’s of no account.” Rushdie rolls his eyes at the mention of Naipaul....
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