Hints and tips:
...I’ll wager it isn’t Elon Musk, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Milken or Sylvester Stallone....
...Starting next week, we have a number of stories about this year’s votes, and a series of films on democracy by world famous writers such as Margaret Atwood....
...Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr is appearing at the Columbia Law School Banking Conference in New York and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly addresses the...
...Few authors should be better positioned to take on crypto than Michael Lewis....
...The Dreamboat Orchestra’, Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne) The Grammy-nominated Melbourne jazz/neo soul/funk ensemble will join forces with The Dreamboat Orchestra to perform arrangements by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson...
...Michael Dunn, theoryofknowledge.net...
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...“I would not say with any certainty, of course, that we will be reduced to The Handmaid’s Tale,” Swan says, referring to Margaret Atwood’s novel imagining a world in which pollutants contribute to a reproductive...
...Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood (Chatto & Windus/Doubleday)Atwood’s new short-story collection — which features George Orwell, an alien and a confused snail — promises to “explore the full warp...
...It is hard to believe that, for all her self-delusion, Beverley (who claims to be a friend of Margaret Atwood) would blithely assert that “Leonardo da Vinci’s work is probably a lot better than mine.”...
...Farage may have passed on a Bullingdon membership, but the former leader of the UK Independence party has arguably been one of the most influential political figures of recent times, whose “unruly life” Michael...
...literary needs, and there’s always a selection of recently signed books from the readings hosted by the shop, which have seen designer Vivienne Westwood, astronaut Chris Hadfield and novelist Margaret Atwood...
...But studio craft and jam session flow are equally well balanced and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s orchestral strings add class....
...Even in a body of work as revered as that of producer team Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Black Narcissus stands apart....
...Ms Atwood won the Booker in 2000 for The Blind Assassin and has had four other works shortlisted for the prize....
...I thought Michael Lind’s WSJ feature on the managerial elite was smart....
...The line-up, announced Tuesday morning in London, of four women and two men includes two former winners — Margaret Atwood for The Testaments, her sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale that is due out this week,...
...Quick hits Other FT stories that have caught my eye this week Native English speakers: read Michael Skapinker’s column and stop confusing everyone else....
...One of the authors is Evaristo, the first black woman to win; the other, previous winner Margaret Atwood....
...A: Michael S Smith 12. A: Yanis Varoufakis 13. C: Noel Edmonds 14. B: Led Zeppelin 15. A: Jess Phillips...
...Few costumes have become as charged as the menstrual-red cloaks and white bonnets seen in the Hulu adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale....
...Total sales for a Booker winner are just as impressive — The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood went from 8,228 copies to 500,717 copies in 2000, for instance. Most crucially, it has glamour....
...In The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood gave the long-suffering Penelope new agency in her acerbic version of her husband’s homecoming at the end of The Odyssey....
...Margaret Atwood saluted her “immense imagination”, her “strong and trenchant mind”. Elif Shafak joined in with a tribute to “the writer whose words & imagination changed us forever”....
...I’m also reading Sporting Guide, about Los Angeles in 1897, by my friend Liz Goldwyn, and Wilderness Tips, a book of short stories by Margaret Atwood....
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