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...There is art, by friends, including works by Ed Ruscha, Sam Francis, Brice Marden, Vija Celmins and Richard Diebenkorn....
...Waiting for the Waters to Riseby Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox, World Editions £12.99/$16.99 When the Nobel Prize was suspended in 2018, Swedish cultural figures named Condé winner of The...
...The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana, by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox, World Editions, RRP£12.99, 368 pages Written in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, this...
...globalisation” had barely entered common usage, yet the Vuelta a Colombia was attracting the world’s best riders, such as the Spanish winner of the Tour de France, Pedro Delgado, and Swiss Olympic champion Pascal Richard...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$25 A companion piece of sorts to his excellent Yoga for People...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts...
...Ángel Gurría-Quintana Poetry Breezeway, by John Ashbery, Carcanet, RRP£9.99 / Ecco, RRP$22.99 Ashbery’s thoughts make leaps to the extent that one wonders whether he has been playing with some randomising...
...… The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99/ Knopf, RRP$26.95 Winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize, this exquisitely written novel by the Australian author Richard...
...Alvandi throws new light on the period by showing that Iran’s last shah was more than just President Richard Nixon’s cat’s paw in the Middle East....
.../ From Mr Richard Walker...
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...At other times, he is joined for sections of the walk by the writers Richard Mabey and Robert Macfarlane. For all this companionable approach, melancholy breaks through....
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...Over a light lunch, Richard Morris, the estate’s manager, tells me about plans to transform Wimpole into a fully organic farm....
...My tutor for the session is Richard Butler, a third-year student of the history of art and architecture. He is also the president of St John’s College Punt Society, which manages a fleet of 10 punts....
...Destiny calls: he will be the Keith Richards of rock journalism, blazing a drug-addled trail in the NME....
...Angel Gurría-Quintana is the FT’s fiction reviewer ………………………………………………………....
...Buckley, a painter who has produced striking covers for work by contemporary authors such as Jonathan Franzen and Richard Powers, is known for designs based on cropped or enlarged stock pictures, augmented...
...New York-born Richard Avedon was already a prized staff photographer at Harper’s Bazaar when he published his first collection, Observations....
...Richard Ford’s selection includes classic stories by authors including Eudora Welty and Raymond Carver, but also incorporates newer voices....
...Fiction Compiled by Angel Gurría-Quintana 2666 By Roberto BolañoTranslated by Natasha Wimmer Picador £20, 912 pages Hailed as a masterpiece, the late Bolaño’s sprawling and ambitious work mixes the story...
...There is such a thing as a poor translation, as Richard Pevear writes in the introduction to his recent rendering of Alexandre Dumas’ swashbuckling classic, The Three Musketeers....
...Richard Nixon delivering his resignation speech on television is “a human soul dragged inside-out like a soiled sock”....
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