Hints and tips:
...Cities have to apply to be a Unesco City of Literature, a list that includes obvious choices such as Edinburgh, Iowa City and Beirut, but also more unexpected places, from to Taif in Saudi Arabia to Lviv...
...Roy is a man of the left....
...In their different ways, all these writers have an answer to Bishop’s question: they travel to stay curious, to connect with the past, to see cities and countries afresh through the eyes of migrants rather...
...But as Toronto’s city librarian Vickery Bowles put it, speaking to Library Journal, “I think this represents an attack on the very essence of civil society.”...
...For we read in Sumerian literature of the lamentations of citizens as their cities are engulfed in chaos and disorder. The same is true of Ancient Egypt....
...The nuns who ran the institution had posted a notice on the bulletin board, warning students not to go to certain parts of the city because of a huge political demonstration....
...“Time, like air and water, erodes.”Often these stories are set in the US, in cities including New York and San Francisco, and many of her characters are caught in mid-life, looking back at — or away from...
...I entirely agree: if you want to feel at home in a new city, simply bring a book as you saunter the streets....
...Nonetheless, Luna Luna artists designed merchandise; T-shirts conceived by Haring and Roy Lichtenstein are on display....
...Tursun’s Ürümqi, a city where the sun never really rises, is a haunting image of a migrant’s “longing and loneliness”....
...Earlier that week, Biden said he raised more than $25mn at an event with former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama at New York’s Radio City Music Hall....
...Rather than algorithms, there is nothing more powerful than a reader who truly loves a book, writes Nilanjana Roy....
...Everything from hairstyle tutorials to reconfigured city maps — and, of course, cats — flash up on the screens, interspersed with her own typographic interludes....
...Without wishing to give away too much, the cigar-chomping, hot tub-soaking Roy Tillman looms large in Dot’s story....
...“It’s exciting and I think Roy would have been happy,” she says. “It just seems like a wonderful legacy. The studio adds another dimension to the cultural life of the city.”...
...From the poorest slums of one of the world’s most dangerous cities, a violent gangster is calling for a proletarian uprising in the lawless chaos of Haiti....
...In 1927, in the ruins of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, in present-day Iraq, the British archaeologist Leonard Woolley uncovered an alabaster disc featuring the imposing figure of a high priestess....
...My favourite is in the introduction of Roy Porter’s Social History of London, published in 1994, which begins with the line: “London is not the eternal city; it had its hour upon the stage”, before casually...
...Art of the Everyday, an exploration of the ‘still life’ genre, featuring works by artists including Andy Warhol, Fernand Léger and Roy Lichtenstein....
...Murphy’s route to acting was one part accident, three parts drive: the eldest of four children to teacher parents, Brendan and Mary, he grew up in Cork city, in the south of Ireland....
...But does the money make up for the travails of Stoke City?...
...and Manchester City....
...Meanwhile, Shiv Roy, now reinstated in real life as Sarah Snook, flaunts her new pulling-power in a version by Kip William of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, a one-woman show at London’s 900-seat...
...Fabrice Roy, 64, who moved to the city from Paris in 2015, and is today looking to buy a new home, illustrates the problem. “You see the same apartments still for sale week after week....
...Nikki Haley, who visited Midland last month, will attend an event hosted by oil billionaire Harold Hamm in Oklahoma City next week....
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