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...At the centenary of JD Salinger’s birth, in 2019, his son Matt Salinger told me — and the world — that he intends to gradually release his father’s unpublished work....
...(NYT Magazine $) — Lucid scores a sorely needed win with Aston Martin’s EV order (BBG $) — Matt Bruenig on used car prices — Matt Stoller thread on Microsoft/Activision (Twitter) — A thirsty new Tesla...
...For more on that, read this excellent piece by Politico’s Matt Kaminski....
...Here her work looked more conventional, with abstract modern sets (Matt Saunders) and period costumes (Kaye Voyce)....
...It stars Hollywood actor Matt Damon who intones: “History is filled with almosts — with those who almost adventured, who almost achieved . . ....
...(And we don’t just mean Matt Hancock’s continued willingness to embarrass himself on breakfast TV in front of a spray-painted picture of the Queen.)...
...Maybe it would have made a difference if Elder’s Wagner had been recorded in the opera house, but the Hallé’s subtly blended Wagnerian playing produces a highly satisfying sound-world of matt-tinted majesty...
...Like so many Jewish émigrés of his era, Steiner knew his Wagner, and there is a hypnotic slice of Tristan und Isolde buried in the middle of it....
...“Shake the cobwebs free,” Wagner crooned. He was joined by an edited version of Lambchop’s sprawling line-up. Tony Crow sat at a grand piano, Andy Stack was on drums and Matt Swanson played bass....
...In a video message to staff late last year, Wagner admitted that Powa was “basically pre-revenue”....
...Matt Bruenig shoots down the "Nordic zombie argument" that the Nordics only combine egalitarianism with economic success because they freeride on US cut-throat innovation....
..., by Jason Feifer – The open plan office and the extrovert ideal, by Matt Blodgett ——————- Here is a stupid meeting room in the FT’s New York office....
...The crazy anarchist in the grungy beard – all-stops-out mummery from Brazil’s Wagner Moura (Elite Squad) – forges his travel papers and fits his biomechanical body armour....
...The singer and pianist Jamie Cullum will make his Proms debut, there will be a repeat of last year’s Doctor Who Prom featuring the new Time Lord, Matt Smith, and 31 new commissions and premieres will be...
...Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth, by Oliver Hilmes, Yale RRP£25 Liszt’s daughter became not just Wagner’s second wife but high priestess of the Wagnerian cult, surviving the composer for nearly 50 years...
...The late teenage years of John Lennon, put through the biopic wringer by screenwriter Matt Greenhalgh, come out as flat and lifeless as yesterday’s “We Love the Beatles” T-shirt....
...For a refreshment break I tried Parsifal at the Staatsoper, but the production is by movie producer and screenwriter Bernd Eichinger, who presents Wagner’s redemption opera as a prophecy of 9/11....
...The Medici Curse By Matt Chamings Faber £6.99, 314 pages FT bookshop price: £5.59 In Renaissance Florence, an artist’s apprentice paints a portrait of Lorenzo de Medici’s daughter....
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