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...The Fire Within by Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, NYRB Classics, £14.99, 136 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Anne Berest’s novel La Carte postale, which explores her Jewish family’s experiences during the Nazi period, was embroiled in a literary scandal à la française....
...This year’s programme includes excerpts from Nureyev’s Swan Lake, La Sylphide and Maurice Béjart’s La Luna, as well as newer pieces beyond the company’s traditional repertoire....
...It was mid-January when I stepped on board in Las Palmas....
...Welcome to the à la carte world....
...James Foster is a blocked novelist holidaying on the (made-up) island of La Tolqa with his rich wife Em (Cleopatra Coleman)....
...“I look at Romeo and Mia [Regan, the model influencer who has been involved with her son since 2019 and with whom she collaborated on a denim collection in 2022]. They rock up in all their ’90s stuff....
...Breakfast in the Mar Mía restaurant is an elegantly presented set Continental menu (you choose how you’d like your eggs). Later on they serve tapas and mainly seafood and rice dishes....
...Sisters and bandmates Este, Danielle and Alana of the indie rock band Haim joined Ghesquière’s roster of house ambassadors last year – though they’ve been fans of his ever since they were teenagers in LA...
...Fantasy has long been mainstream in Argentina, she says, pointing to her well-thumbed copy of Antología de la literatura fantástica. “They give you that in school,” she says....
...Unfortunately, the Cybertruck is still MIA. When it was first shown to the public, Musk said production would start in late 2021....
...The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MIA, Arctic Monkeys, Hot Chip, Uffie and Metric all put out new albums recently.”...
...“Mamma mia, che bello, buon appetito — you made a good choice, eh!” comes the voice of our Italian waiter (this is LA; everyone knows they have a role to play)....
...Despite the risk of creating distance with a framing narrative, the precision with which Wilson details the worlds in which the story unfolds — from the first-class lounge to the LA art scene — renders it...
...Refined Cantabrian dishes are served at the excellent Amós, led by chef Jesús Sánchez, while Las Brasas de la Castellana offers broader Spanish cuisine....
...Champagne coupe set by La Double J, £700 for set of 4 In a mix of hues, these coupes are mouth-blown by Venetian glassmakers Salviati. ladoublej.com Calle Azzurra chandelier by Luci Italia, €26,090 Holding...
...Patricia NilssonSpecial thanks to Renée Kaplan and Roula Khalaf at the Financial Times and Mia Lobel, Leital Molad, Justine Lang, Julia Barton and Jacob Weisberg at Pushkin Industries....
...The only time I met him, ever, was in Las Vegas, and I saw him two times. He didn’t go to the show. He went to the show with us once....
...LA had become too crowded, with too many distractions, Bell explains....
...Patricia NilssonWe’re in the dusty hills of the San Fernando Valley in the north-west outskirts of LA. Kelly Holland is an old school feminist....
...“Mamma mia!” was a frequent refrain. As a brand, Langosteria’s success is premised on its quality seafood....
...“Cupa Cupa” and “Damme La Manu” set mildly salacious traditional lyrics to the pair’s stuttering, halting music, the sound of the drums warping and wobbling. The pair’s compositions are grittier....
...And Mia LaBelle, Layton Moreland, Justine Lange, Julia Barton, and Jacob Weisberg at Pushkin Industries. Thank you to Similarweb for providing our web traffic data....
...Patricia NilssonFans also love to watch Allie smoke weed, which she buys legally at her local dispensary in Las Vegas....
...She moves at pace through the packed dining room of La Petite Maison, a French Mediterranean restaurant in a Mayfair side street. We are a long way from LA, where she could snap a career in two....
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