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...This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to New York It’s called the city that never sleeps for a reason: New York’s cultural calendar is jam-packed this year, so we’ve narrowed down some of 2024...
...Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi et al (Seven Stories Press) The much-feted author of the graphic novel Persepolis leads a collection of vivid, “visually stunning” accounts of the current unrest gripping...
...Their gorgeous, luminous singing hit a peak with Morley’s sensuous “Et incarnatus est”....
...Plus if you really miss Brian Cox et al, you can slowly flick through the archive photographs while humming a haunting piano theme....
...After the collapse of communism and the advance of market liberalisation and rise of globalisation, the city entered a race with New York for the title of financial capital of the world....
...Cormack says anyone in Cairo during the interwar heyday of its nightlife could claim “to be living in one of the great cities of the world” such as Paris, London, Berlin or New York....
...The pandemic is expertly documented through shows including CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs Fiction with Dr Sanjay Gupta and the BBC World Service’s Coronavirus Global Update, both offering measured news and...
...She is, after all, a local who has spent most of her life – save for a short spell in New York in her 20s – living at the heart of the action....
...Some of what she advocates — and observes — made me recall that day with Brian Haw, not least when she visits Brooklyn Grange, a farm 12 storeys up on a New York rooftop....
...This week I’ve read all of the news so you don’t have to — and what a lovely time I’ve had (I’m kidding. Please make less news)....
...He told the New York Times that he plans to invest the $3m prize money towards his future — but also buy himself a new desk....
...Eric Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, began his career in Chicago and his first book Heatwave explored the role social bonds played in explaining why the 1995 heatwave affected some...
...In a city that can sustain shows like the V&A’s recent Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, which had a working replica of a baroque theatre, it is easy to forget how hard it is for venerable institutions...
...After leaving the UK to travel through Baku, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Delhi, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and on to Mauritius, Tasmania, New Zealand, Tahiti, then back through Texas and New York, Davies comments in...
...The next three names are a little less recognised but equally stellar in their own ways. AL_A are on a high after the June opening of the V&A’s new Exhibition Road Quarter....
...His reputation rests on the fact that, in 2004, he rescued the Boston Red Sox from the “curse of the Bambino,” the 86-year World Series drought that began when Babe Ruth was traded to the dreaded New York...
...Tacla’s paintings have been included in recent exhibitions such as “Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing” in 2014 at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the Emergency Pavilion at the 2013...
...Lankans and Indians who built the Burj Khalifa et al....
...novel, New York-based writer Lerner has written about a New York writer who is supposed to be writing his, yes, second novel....
...Opening in the new gallery, now christened the Blackwell Hall, Marks of Genius might sound like an excuse for a line-up of the Bodleian’s “greatest hits”....
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...Greene herself steers clear of criticising Amazon but she angrily sums up the challenge from Whistl et al like this: “This is not the kind of competition that drives efficiency....
...Selections by Jane Owen LITERARY NON-FICTION White Girls , by Hilton Als, McSweeney’s, RRP$24 The New Yorker critic’s first major work since 1996’s The Women, this collection of essays parses cultural...
...In case you’ve been hiding under a rock these past few weeks you’ll have noticed that the fashion carousel of New York, London, Milan and now Paris is nearing its full rotation (actually, maybe that’s why...
...Most famous, however, are the numerous works by Dufy, Miró, Matisse, Modigliani, Picasso et al, who dined here and donated works in lieu of paying their bills. …………………………………………………………….....
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