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...It occupies the site of a former movie theatre haunted by the ghosts of the Left Bank culturati, including one-time regulars Jean-Paul Belmondo and François Truffaut....
...In many regions, family history looks like this: grandpa François was a farmer, grandma Marie raised the kids, daddy Jean-Claude had a factory job while Mama Nathalie taught part-time....
...‘Jacques Chirac et Le Dialogue des Cultures’, June 21-October 9, quaibranly.fr...
...Two of those books, by Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon, are reviewed in a book essay by Martin Wolf....
...Serious Sweet, by AL Kennedy, Cape, RRP£17.99 Set over the course of a single day, and travelling from Piccadilly to Chiswick via Knightsbridge, AL Kennedy’s latest novel is an ambitious, perambulatory...
...Wolf, Wolf: A Novel, by Eben Venter, translated by Michiel Heyns, Scribe, RRP£14.99 A familiar narrative setting — a patriarch lies dying as his estranged children squabble over his inheritance — is given...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...al – return for another dizzying feast of CGI effects as once again museum pieces, here in the vast Smithsonian Institution in Washington, are magically animated....
...Even as the fashion shops fill up with the mean-looking structured shoulders of Balmain et al, she is already self-conscious about her “swimmer’s shoulders”: “I know I’d look like Krystle Carrington,” she...
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...Meyer recalls the trouble Al Gore encountered when running for president in 2000 and adopting “earth tones” in an effort to “loosen up” on the advice of Naomi Wolf....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? It’s all here....
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