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Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s amnesiac narrator pieces together past and present in a radiant translation by Philip Roughton
...Fabulously rich, the Warburgs of Hamburg nonetheless felt all the pressures that beset high-achieving Jews in the Wilhelmine era....
...Fuller fashions a lucid narrative, rich in ideas. But it splays its limbs in many different directions. The tensions and desires of lockdown sequestration give rise to passages with a Young Adult vibe....
.../ From Jeff Boyd, London E9, UK Imagine Anatole France’s take on effective altruism / From James Meyer, Gurnee, IL, US...
...Federico Alfaro Boyd, the industry minister leading negotiations with the mining group, said he wanted a deal that was “fair and reasonable for all parties”....
...London celebrates the centenary of the birth of Lucian Freud with a rich selection of shows, including the National Gallery’s New Perspectives....
...These funds in turn invested in assets ranging from California-based industrial company Boyd Corp, Dutch medical business Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center and the UK’s Phastar, a data science company focused...
...In spite of elements that feel closer to soap opera than saga, The Reindeer Hunters turns that duty into the pleasure of a craftily woven tale steeped in rich local dyes....
...Mercantile Venice, however, that super-rich but fragile “front without a store”, liked it just that way....
...Despite excursions into young-adult yarns and family memoirs, Allende has regularly returned to the formula of the plot-rich historical chronicle, fronted by intrepid heroines, that defined her brand....
...Powers is a former computer programmer whose ideas-rich fiction grounds the grandest scientific concepts in everyday experience....
...Then, after Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama crossed the oceans, “what made Antwerp rich was the change in trade routes: ships going by ocean to Asia and America”....
...In a novel rich in playful literary pastiches — of Norse sagas, Renaissance verse epics, Spanish chronicles, all captured with eloquent dexterity by translator Sam Taylor — Binet also gives us Thomas More...
...The interior is rich with portraits and antique furniture, the sala filosofia dense with books....
...Letter in response to this article: Carbon price makes those Sisyphean tasks easier / From Christopher Boyd, Pézenas, France...
...It reveals the beautiful midwinter form, textures and tones of gardens such as Gresgarth Hall (the home of landscape designer Arabella Lennox-Boyd), Great Dixter, Sussex Prairie and Dan Pearson’s garden...
...In the current pandemic, the idea of borrowing against the value of your homes may sound appealing to increasing numbers who are house rich and income poor....
...“A lot of musicians will have no idea how rich they now are,” says Hartwig Masuch, chief executive of music company BMG....
...Predictably, our narrator gives up his immortal longings and sees the wisdom in Léonore’s diagnosis of transhuman therapy as “a fantasy designed to humour infantile . . . megalomaniacs” — invariably rich...
...Rich soil is made up about 18in above ground level....
...Born in Munich, raised in Vienna, the German bestseller has, over eight novels, played witty inventive games with the forms of fiction while staying rooted in a rich soil of ideas and emotions....
...“That’s much better than a rich person just buying a tract of land,” says Philip Nel, political scientist at the University of Otago....
...Best known for his award-winning duet with drummer Moses Boyd, he now presents a first quartet recording on Gearbox Records....
...The unnamed 36-year-old narrator here paints portraits for rich clients, and feels he has mislaid his own vocation....
...Remarkably, Cross had only saxophonist Chelsea Carmichael and drummer Moses Boyd in support....
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