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...In fiction, I loved The Magician, Colm Tóibín’s fictionalised biography of the great German novelist Thomas Mann and arguably his best book yet....
...The Magician by Colm Tóibín, Viking £18.99, 448 pages/Scribner $28.99, 512 pages Rebecca Abrams is the author of ‘Touching Distance’ (Picador) Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
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...I recommend Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, to me the most profound novel of the 20th century. It is about illness (tuberculosis) and death....
...Yet the convoluted production by Graham Vick hammers out the theme of death so heavily that there is little room to contemplate the intricacies of Death in Venice, the Thomas Mann novella which Britten and...
...Finishing Linda Grant’s smart new novel The Dark Circle made me feel much better about having never finished Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain....
...John Mann, MP for Bassetlaw, Nottinghamshire, said Javid’s position was untenable. (Rates in Bassetlaw, incidentally, are set to fall 11 per cent.)...
...Rebecca Hamilton, Rebecca Killick and Zara Ramm suggest the pain of the women (girlfriend, wife, mother) trying to cope with their broken men....
...They have just not discovered Montecito yet,” says Montecito-based estate agent Rebecca Riskin from Riskin Associates....
...Tom Stoppard has adapted Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End for a mini-series, jointly produced with the BBC, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall, shooting now....
...John Leech TREASURY (Andrew Tyrie) – John Cryer, Andy Love, John Mann, George Mudie, Chuka Umunna. Michael Fallon, David Rutley, Andrea Leadsom, Jessie Norman. John Thurso....
...So BP is back, if not to square one, then to an early stage in the process: looking again at the short-list drawn up by Anna Mann, its regular headhunter, and trawling for new names....
...And among all those types who happened to read her was Beauman’s German mother, Eleanore “Lore” Mann, a successful lawyer and judge....
...If the world’s leading art fairs were novels, Frieze would be written by Martin Amis, Miami Beach by Tom Wolfe, and Basel by Thomas Mann. Frieze, though held each autumn, is young and sexy....
...“Be real careful of the unpopularity of the bail-out,” said Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution. “There is no question that those who are mobilised are unanimously against it....
...His other roles include the early American adventurer Hawkeye in Michael Mann’s Last of the Mohicans, which established him as a potential Hollywood heartthrob, a label he detests....
...Tony White’s Another Fool in the Balkans: In the Footsteps of Rebecca West is a conspicuous example of get-it-all-in-ism....
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