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...The tone is still essentially pastiche, though — in the trailer we see an angry Karen wielding hammers in a sundress, a naked guy chased through a gas station by cops and a billboard for antidepressants...
...I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore, Faber £16.99, 208 pages...
...There are jokes about the pandemic and the besmirching of the name “Karen”, as well as anachronistic quips such as the Roman who clocked my character’s modern torch and murmured: “You carry the gift to Prometheus...
...Kacen Callender intends Felix Ever After (Faber, £7.99) “For trans and nonbinary youth: You’re beautiful. You’re important. You’re valid. You’re perfect.”...
...A good example is Danone, where Emmanuel Faber was ousted as chief executive in March....
...Back in the UK, Derby-based Heritage Trimmings, founded by Nick and Karen Tubbs in 1991, took over a historic factory in 1998 to make the gold, silver and silk passementerie for the restoration of the King...
...In Kitty Peck and the Parliament of Shadows (Faber, RRP£8.99), Griffin’s protagonist takes control of her grandmother’s criminal enterprises (prostitution, drugs and contraband) with a view to transforming...
...The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956-1963 , edited by Peter Steinberg, and Karen Kukil, Faber & Faber, RRP£35, 1,024 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...The Letters of Sylvia Plath Vol 1: 1940-1956, edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen Kukil, Faber RRP£35, 1,424 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...While The Strokes, and the similarly charismatic Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, were filled with supreme confidence and a vision of themselves, they could only become rock stars because they were anointed as...
...Is Possible, by Peter Pomerantsev, Faber & Faber, RRP£14.99/Public Affairs, RRP$25.99, 284 pages The late, great historian of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonard Schapiro, used to argue that...
...… We are All Completely Beside Ourselves , by Karen Joy Fowler, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£7.99/ Plume, RRP£16 Fowler’s moving, funny, Man Booker-shortlisted study of the lingering effect of an experimental...
...Bough Down , by Karen Green, Siglio, RRP£28/$36 “It’s hard to remember tender things tenderly,” writes Green in her debut, a reckoning with the death of her husband, novelist David Foster Wallace, who committed...
...The Age of Miracles , by Karen Thompson Walker, Simon & Schuster, RRP£14.99 Coming of age can often seem like the end of the world....
...He remains in essence the talent spotter who once excitedly announced: “I’ve discovered this fabulous, sexy Brazilian girl called Karen.” The writer is the FT’s pop critic...
...CLASSICAL Faber Pocket Guide to Britten, by John Bridcut, Faber, RRP£8.99, 352 pages Bridcut’s deft, entertaining guide appears ahead of Britten’s centenary year in 2013....
...The Bradshaw Variations By Rachel Cusk Faber, £15.99 “What is art?” asks the book’s opening line....
...Hanif Kureishi is author of ‘Something to Tell You’ (Faber)...
...The Bible: The Biography By Karen Armstrong Atlantic Books £16.99, 302 pages FT bookshop price: £13.59 Karen Armstrong sets out to reclaim the Bible from the fundamentalists, tracing the disparate and contradictory...
...St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves By Karen Russell Chatto & Windus £11.99, 256 pages FT bookshop price: £9.59 Ten hugely entertaining short stories - including the hilarious titular tale of 15...
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