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...His style is a treat — elegant, intelligent and entertaining as he describes the ways we read a city with our feet and mind, and guides us through a history of walking writing from Dickens and Poe to Marx...
...Too often, sleekness trumps accessibility, a point made by the American writer and mechanic Matthew Crawford in his 2009 book The Case for Working with Your Hands....
...“Pedro [Mendes] and Matthew [Wood] taught me how to see Sonia’s work, we are very much supporting them,” he says....
...The one female team-member (the very droll Sinéad Matthews) eats only eggs and apples (both foods that appear in creation stories). Where are we exactly?...
...King & Spalding has hired Matthew Nichols as a partner in the firm’s Atlanta practice. Nichols joins from law firm Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein....
...Blum & Poe, 2727 La Cienega Boulevard (+1310-836 2062; blumandpoe.com). Eames Foundation, 203 Chautauqua Boulevard (+1310-459 9663; eamesfoundation.org)....
...Victoria Miro is featuring Yayoi Kusama, Gladstone is showing Alighiero e Boetti and Hauser and Wirth has the current art sensation, Matthew Day Jackson....
...In “Samson’s Hair”, Eve has fused with the Serpent to become Delilah (Chamberlain), trapping the Jewish hero (bewigged Matthew Clancy)....
...The Last Dickens By Matthew Pearl Vintage £7.99, 460 pages FT Bookshop price £6.39 Boston, 1870: publisher James Osgood’s solvency depends on the latest instalments of Charles Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin...
...Or as another American commentator, Edgar Allen Poe, put it: “I have great faith in fools; ‘self-confidence’ my friends call it.” matthew.vincent@ft.com...
...Publishing houses competed ferociously to be first with a new serial, and this is the context for Matthew Pearl’s The Last Dickens....
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