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...William Cecil, Elizabeth’s chief adviser, saw Mary as a threat to his Protestant aims for England, and put a stop to further plans....
...Submission, by Michel Houellebecq, translated by Lorin Stein, William Heinemann, RRP£18.99, 256 pages....
...William, in particular, is a triumph of character writing....
...Lorin Maazel began his musical career as a child prodigy and as he enters his ninth decade retains a capacity for music-making that can only be called prodigious....
...As Lorin Stein, the new editor of the celebrated literary magazine The Paris Review, recently put it to me: “It’s like a national superego.”...
...“I’m going to have alcohol,” I say to Lorin Stein, who has arrived spry as spritz, and is seemingly unaffected by the sweltering heat outside. “Shall we get a bottle?”...
...William Brewer III, the Wylys’ lead counsel, said the SEC claims “are without merit.”...
...Hate: A Romance, by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein, Faber, RRP£12.99, 320 pages Garcia was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore for this novel, a powerful debut charting the...
...Three weeks ago Lorin Maazel conducted the final concerts of his seven-year term as music director of the New York Philharmonic....
...The New York Phil’s landmark trip to Pyongyang certainly exceeded expectations and an ecstatic Lorin Maazel, the orchestra’s music director, dubbed it “an important first step” towards normalising relations...
...Tonight until May 5. www.cheltenhamfestivals. com Chicago Tennessee Williams Candles to the Sun Tennessee Williams wrote Candles to the Sun, his first full-length play, while in his mid-20s and still...
...The New York Phil, conducted by Lorin Maazel, will perform a repertoire heavy on the benefits of opening one’s eyes to the outside world....
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