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...“It is about black Britain and what it is to be working class,” he says of his Converge gilet, for example, which was acquired by the V&A for its collection in 2021. “It is descriptive of urban life....
...(In America it’s also called the Colorado River toad, for hopefully obvious reasons.)...
...v=iBALj_Um1fc – ‘In praise of book clubs – and how to do them well’ by Nilanjana Roy: https://on.ft.com/3xtmmjF – Nilanjana’s newest novel Black River will be published in June....
...Britons, I suspect, would be happy to take back their invasive starlings if only Americans would reclaim their grey squirrels. Flocking birds do have some life lessons for humans....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...Pressure has mounted for the return of objects that are seen to be an important part of the identity of countries in Africa and beyond, such as the Ethiopian treasures in the V&A or the Benin Bronzes scattered...
...In contrast, George V and George VI died in winter: some of the 305,000 who saw the latter lying in state had to put up with light snow....
...A map of the river Ucayali, tributary of the Amazon, illustrating local communities along its stretch, was painted by indigenous artists collaborating with Franciscan missionaries....
...He has been coming to Wiltons since the 1950s: it turns out it has also been the venue for some of the most momentous events of his life....
...Served among the steakhouses of Borough Market, chef Sarah Wasserman’s “v’duja” croquettes and pibil tofu tortillas are unlikely favourites of an otherwise meaty crowd....
...This month, Picador, which under the celebrated editor Sonny Mehta first brought Kincaid to the UK in 1985, will reissue five of her books: At the Bottom of the River, a collection of short stories published...
...kadhim@ft.com / sid.v@ft.com...
...Despite these assurances, there is considerable resistance in Debrecen to some of the investments....
...Hundreds of boats, small craft, barges and launches, rowers and scullers, crowding the river as they would have done in the time of the first Elizabeth....
...brilliantly the atmosphere of everyday life in the destroyed cities of divided postwar Germany....
...for a better life under capitalism....
...The “financialisation” of life took root here: “a radical change of mind, and Antwerp has to take some of the blame”....
...River School view of the Catskills....
...As Powell recalled in his memoirs, countries involved in the Gulf were sovereign and wanted assurances as to how their forces would be used....
...of Pakistani life along the lines of Zia’s regressive interpretation of Islam....
...“Currently my aspiration is to make my work as my life has been”, Bowling said in 2019. “The unfolding of light, and the total experience of my body within history.”...
...Minik’s father soon died and the boy was put into the care of a staff member of the American Museum of Natural History....
...Lorien Kite is deputy editor of FT Life & Arts....
...The first is a 1,200-year-old red stone V, one of hundreds that once formed a series of immense African henges along the Gambia river....
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