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...Joyce Carol Oates’ Zero-Sum (Fourth Estate, 9 hrs 45 mins), presented by an array of highly proficient readers, offers tense narratives, variously filled with tales of seduction, revenge and — in the collection...
...Facts, puns and wordplay jostle with simultaneously laugh-out-loud and sombre reflections on anything from Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie series (“The Long Winter is the best one, the...
...Thornton Wilder had made it so, with his 1938 play Our Town, and popular songs often serenaded it....
...Here was a venue not readily associated with the wilder shores of innovation but Pomona was a strange, experimental piece....
...Mr Joyce also said that potential tighter regulation of high-frequency trading would not deeply affect Knight’s business....
...(Whatever happened to Billy Wilder? Weren’t there once comedies that started sour and stayed sour?)...
...Where is the moral distinction between my election bet, and a punt on pork belly futures or the wilder shores of Nasdaq? In Britain, political betting has a long legitimate history....
...Joyce McGraw-Hill £16.99, 300 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Stuck with inherited structures and failing systems, we need a radical recasting of the organisation say these two McKinsey consultants....
...Yet James Joyce’s 1922 masterpiece Ulysses manages to compress Homer’s epic into a single day in Dublin....
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