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...This is Rebecca F Kuang’s fifth novel — at 27, she is already a cross-genre literary phenomenon....
...There are plenty of counterfactuals here (not only Biden and Obama, but also John F Kennedy and Harry Truman)....
...It’s also one of the qualities in untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play that appeals to her....
...As a brash young property developer in the 1970s, Donald Trump learnt the dark arts of using the tabloid press from one of the masters: mob lawyer and Trump mentor Roy Cohn, who was known to dictate items...
...Birchers reviled John F Kennedy as another avatar of anti-American “one-worldism”....
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...At Manhattan’s Lincoln Center, the cast danced to Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” while guests sipped on a custom whiskey cocktail named “F*CK OFF” — a reference to the cantankerous character Logan Roy...
...NDTV’s founders, Prannoy and Radhika Roy, stepped down from its board last month. It is a sad tale and a barometer of where India is heading....
...“cash out and f**k off”, Logan makes an offer to buy out his son’s stake in Waystar Royco for $2,015,708,009. Two whole yards....
...Zarir F Udwadia Mumbai, India...
...Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letters in response to this column: Joyce’s most difficult novel is better on audiobook / From Zarir F Udwadia, Mumbai, India An Elizabethan essayist...
...It is full of f-bombs courtesy of its “hard man” player Roy Kent (UK readers will spot the likeness to real-life Roy Keane) and has storylines so corny and simple that they would make Love Actually’s Richard...
...So it takes serious chutzpah to tinker with another writer’s character, especially if that character is Nick Carraway, the superbly wry, detached narrator of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece The Great...
...For the first time ever, the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list was dominated by books on anti-racism, from Ijoema Oluo’s So You Want To Talk about Race to Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad....
...Cox finds that same existential unease in Roy. “He is a misanthrope. A nihilist. Basically he is disappointed with the human experiment. And that is where you get this merry cry of ‘F**k it!’...
...The 20th-century art auction already includes Pablo Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (version ‘F’)” (1955), estimated at $25m, and Roy Lichtenstein’s “Nude with Joyous Painting” (1994), estimated at $30m....
...When she confesses her dark pact to an alpha mom, the reaction from Yvette is unexpected: “That f**king thing. It’s been coming south of Powell?”...
...And f*** everybody else.” 5....
...John F Kennedy’s assassination coincided with growing US entanglement in the war in Vietnam. France and Communist China joined the nuclear club....
...“They go from ramen and a studio apartment to being one of the wealthiest people in the country overnight,” says Roy Bahat, head of Bloomberg Beta, a venture firm backed by the financial information company...
...“When I brought my baby home from the hospital and Mickey Mouse was on her first diaper I wanted to vomit,” she says: “I used to call him ‘that f***ing mouse’, TFM for short.”...
...He brought a vinyl of Roy Buchanan, called Buch and the Snake Stretchers. We would listen and dance to that a lot.” Wearing tartan was a prerequisite for those holidays....
...Harris used to dine here with Roy Jenkins, who lived nearby until his death in 2003....
...Letter in response to this article: Obit did not mention Naipaul’s best book / From John F May, Bethesda, MD, US...
...he said in a reference to President John F Kennedy and his brother Robert, who served as attorney-general....
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