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...The Princess is Polynesian rather than French; Melanie-Joyce Bermudez plays her as sweet, mirthful and, when the situation commands it, imposing....
...But Bonnaire brings real edge to the film, and Maxine Peake is perfect as lover and literary confidante Barbara Bray....
...In the sense that Madonna, with her constant churn of images and styles, is like a female Bowie, we might see her as a Mick, and when reading an FT interview with Joyce Carol Oates, it struck me that she...
...The eminent cast includes Renée Flemming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato....
...Date to be announced; further information here Sumida Street Jazz Festival Sumida will be host to hordes of jazz lovers as musicians perform in venues across the neighbourhood....
...James Joyce knew his offal and knew it had to be fresh....
...“Only the weak fall in love, they see no way of living otherwise,” writes Joyce Carol Oates in her new novel Babysitter....
...She also placed great emphasis on Monroe’s relationship with Charlie Chaplin Jr and Edward G Robinson Jr, who both became her lovers....
...Joyce and Hemingway went on drinking sprees together....
...mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Irene, a central figure among the staff’s Christian dissidents....
...But this demographic has also revived a love of older books — including James Joyce’s 100-year-old Ulysses, which began trending after #BookTok’s gleeful discovery of Joyce’s eproctophiliac letters to his...
...To mark the centenary of Ulysses I’ve taken a renewed run at Joyce’s masterpiece via Jim Norton’s entertaining reading in which he brings the book’s baffling, polyphonic charm to life....
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letters in response to this column: Joyce’s most difficult novel is better on audiobook / From Zarir F Udwadia, Mumbai, India An Elizabethan essayist...
...There is tenderness, too, as Edith recalls the savage illness that struck down her mother when she was a child, and the more recent death of her lover....
...Peter Coyote provides the suitably gravelly voiceover about this “brawler, lover, man about town”....
...Towards the end of Valeria’s tour we pause at what was Sabbatini’s final project: the Scalinata degli Innamorati (lovers’ staircase)....
...Mountain lovers and winter-sports enthusiasts across Europe and the US have been rethinking their work and leisure priorities, and luxury ski resorts have benefited....
...And as you heard, one of them is the audiobook of Ulysses by James Joyce. Notoriously, that is one of the harder books to decipher in the English language....
...merely the start of a long-running, mainstream debate over obscenity that went unresolved until 1960, when the judgment in the British trial over the unexpurgated edition of DH Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover...
...The warren-like 17th-century building has played host to readings by authors ranging from Allen Ginsberg and William S Burroughs to Zadie Smith and Dave Eggers, while some claim James Joyce to be buried...
...Recordings of the series of seven interpretations by different top-tier dancers are streaming to Jan 10 ($13 a ticket, joyce.org)....
...When it comes to finding the next generation of opera lovers, I much prefer that idea to honking for Mimi. josh.spero@ft.com...
...The power-crazed Agrippina is a peach of a role for a singer with the right force of personality and Joyce DiDonato is a mezzo at the height of her powers....
...She has acknowledged Joyce’s Ulysses as influential: “It taught me that a novel can be whatever you want it to be.”...
...Rare among ballet choreographers, Binet trusts the gaps. ★★★☆☆ The festival concludes with Programme D, to August 18, joyce.org...
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