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...Also in the FT do read Margaret Heffernan on why “for young people, the job search has never been so miserable”....
...Consider Phlebas, the first title in his Culture series, which can fetch around £1,750 for an inscribed copy, JG Ballard’s The Drowned World, which retails at around £3,000 for a first-edition hardback, and Margaret...
...Foot is back this year and I’m looking forward to her adaptation of JM Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K, with its use of puppetry to bring to life the story of a “simple” man who embarks on an epic...
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...Sixty-year-old Brian was one of the last miners at “the Big K”....
...Margaret Franklin, chief executive and president of CFA Institute, says success abroad reflects a drive by institutional investors to tap China’s growing savings pool....
...Beware the fierce devotion of K-pop fans Boy band devotees used to be docile — the stars sang, they swooned....
...The exhibition’s title, There Is No Alternative — a reference to Margaret Thatcher’s defence of her economic policies — announces the explicitly political nature of the work....
...But he’ll also tell you that if you don’t like it, ‘F**k off — there’s the door.’”...
...Tom Perrotta’s The Leftovers enjoyed a 5,600-per cent jump in sales, while sales of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale rose by 410 per cent — and these were not unusual figures....
...Indeed the obvious criticism of Blade Runner, which is based on Philip K Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is that its dystopias are a bit tame....
...Letters in response to this article: There are many ways to boost diversity at Oxbridge / From Elisabeth K Marksteiner and Tiffany Jolowicz Oxford cannot offer places to those who do not apply / From Jeremy...
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...Ursula K Le Guin was born on October 21, 1929, into a lively household in Berkeley....
...K Street [political lobbyists] hates him. Obviously the Democrats hated him. Establishment Republicans hated him . . . ” he says. “So I was like, you know what? I want him to succeed....
...Indian diplomat, K Natwar Singh, acting on the instructions of his political superiors in New Delhi....
...As for the play, which was adapted for the stage by Simon Block: “I know it sounds stupid, but I don’t think [Rosenthal will] let me f**k it up. I don’t think he will....
...janan.ganesh@ft.com; @JananGanesh Photograph: Getty Letter in response to this article: Light moments that make a tragic story authentic / From Margaret McGirr...
...For context, French newspaper Liberation this week photoshopped Mr Fillon’s face onto Margaret Thatcher’s head....
...After all, Margaret Hodge, chairman of the UK’s public accounts committee, will not be around to terrify the board after the general election....
...famous debates with Buckley during the 1968 Democratic convention: it was not Buckley who introduced a comparison to the Nazi flag into the argument, as Parini would have it, but the moderator, Howard K...
...Stone Mattress: Nine Tales, by Margaret Atwood, Bloomsbury, RRP£18.99/Nan Talese, RRP$25.95, 288 pages Ursula K Le Guin is author of ‘The Unreal and the Real’ (Gollancz) Illustration by Toby Whitebread...
...Perhaps it was his choice this time of fantasy that did it; what Margaret Atwood refers to as “speculative fiction” might sometimes struggle for mainstream literary recognition but it still fares better...
...Instead, it seemed to me, to adapt the phrase coined by the Nobel prize-winning writer JM Coetzee in his 1983 novel Life and Times of Michael K, that a meaning had taken up residence in the system without...
...When we encounter androids in the work of novelists such as Philip K Dick or Isaac Asimov, they are often tragic figures who demand an extension of sympathy: above all else they long to be human, which they...
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