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...You might have noticed that its publishers have pulled out all the stops for the global release of The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale: midnight bookshop openings, heavily embargoed...
...Best of the rest If Corbyn wants to be prime minister, he has to get real about Putin’s Russia — Matthew d’Ancona in The Guardian Trump, flush with power — Maureen Dowd in The New York Times On Russian...
...Like Wilson, Margaret Thatcher also repeatedly went somewhere she loved, travelling to the Austrian and Swiss Alps. And like Mr Brown, while there, she could not be stopped from working....
...Bill, a hilariously reactionary Gordon Clapp, complains to Travis that Margaret, the fine Ann Dowd, has no photos in the house of them together....
...In Worried about the Boy , we saw George O’Dowd, aka Boy George, flaunting his gayness from his teenage years, developing the mix of armour-plated wit and skilfully deployed vulnerability that was his public...
...In the midst of the primary battle for the Democratic nomination, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd dubbed the Illinois senator Obambi, seeing weakness in his professorial mien....
...Maureen Dowd, also of the Times, is often achingly funny but occasionally crabby....
...MORAL DISORDER by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury ₤15.99, 272 pages Mercurial Atwood’s latest offering spins autobiography into vividly narrated snapshots that document family life from the 1930s to the present...
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