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...Research by political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck first drew attention to the phenomenon in their 2019 book Identity Crisis, highlighting how Barack Obama’s approval rating trended...
...Fortunately for us, his friend and literary executor Max Brod ignored his directions to burn the rest, producing the output that we now celebrate....
...For us viewers, at least, if not the warring Roys....
...America’s ‘red wall’ moment: Democrats are rapidly losing non-white voters as the forces that ensured their support are weakening, writes John Burn-Murdoch....
...The journalist Lynn Barber, in a profile of Billingham for The Observer in 2000, wrote: “I care passionately about the Billinghams, precisely because they are not presented as social problems but as riotously...
...Black River by Nilanjana Roy (Pushkin Press)A work of literary fiction with a granular, compassionate outlook by the Delhi-based FT columnist....
...“If I move away, it burns, if I come closer, it cools — Where did she/ get this fire?”...
...“The idea that you could solve for [streaming] profitability, which doesn’t exist today, by letting your [traditional TV] programming burn to the ground, which is where all your cash flow comes from . ....
...She’s also strangely fragile, her pale, freckled skin always on the brink of burn. She looks like the sort of person who gets savaged by mosquitoes, because bugs don’t care who’s a billionaire....
...In an outstanding documentary mini-series directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, The US and the Holocaust confronts the national shame lost in narratives of military victory and belated moral...
...Over a lifetime, authors such as King or Joyce Carol Oates (58 novels across several literary genres) have proved that prolific writers can have the same success rate as slow-burn writers....
...India’s capital New Delhi captures global attention for the toxic air that engulfs its unfortunate inhabitants every winter: farmers burn stubble in nearby provinces and smoke clouds the inland city....
...“The land where I was born has tendered loving words to me: / A score and more of wonders burn here between sea and sea,” the late Vijay Nambisan writes in “A Gift of Tongues”, one of the great poems about...
...As his mother Lynn, Chloë Sevigny brilliantly captures the enervation born of unfathomable sorrow and gnawing guilt....
...Its follow-up, 2014’s Burn Your Fire for No Witness, had a song in which she directly channelled Hank Williams....
...A 2014 study by medical anthropologist Christopher Lynn found that relaxing around an open fire reduces your blood pressure....
...In “Combustion”, she offers a warning about the alphabet — Touch it/ And you’ll burn to ashes/ Instantly....
...I’ve been watching the wonderful Ken Burns documentary on the Roosevelts, which is timely viewing for the moment....
...“We didn’t sell any of her work from that show; she was a slow-burn, but became a commercial linchpin,” Epstein says....
...The second track, “Hargrove”, is a searing nu-soul tribute to the late trumpeter Roy Hargrove; drummer Art Blakey is celebrated by hip-hop flavoured “For Art’s Sake” later in the set....
...Rothschild & Co has hired Citigroup technology investment banker Eric Burns as a managing director, per Bloomberg....
...Only 20 minutes into part one of Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s documentary and he’s already a youthful first world war hero cited for gallantry and shredded with shrapnel. “Fraid o’ nothing!”...
...In the words of Succession’s Logan Roy, “money wins”....
...The six-hour series streaming now on the BBC, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the writer’s enduring influence on literature and culture, and echoes Toni Morrison’s plea — don’t settle for happiness...
...Starkie says half the children there live in poverty and argues that they should not miss out on jobs when China and other countries continue to burn coal....
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