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...Reviewers compared him to Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and John Irving. But Hill is very much his own man. If The Nix is a tough act to follow, Wellness proves he’s got the chops....
...At the very end of the 18th century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim...
...The “king of tread” takes the FT’s Charlie Thomas ice drifting at Michelin’s Arctic Proving Ground in Ivalo, Finland, in this thrill of a read....
...An ebb and flow that has been continuing for centuries: this is where Liszt used to stay (and invited Wagner to perform the premiere of the first act of Die Walküre), where Thomas Mann honeymooned and where...
.... £16.99, Atlantic Books The Oxford Companion to Wine 5th Edition edited by Julia Harding, Jancis Robinson and Tara Q Thomas You won’t find a wine pro in the world who doesn’t own a well-thumbed copy of...
...Royal Mail, the FT’s Mehul Srivastava and Oliver Telling report President Kais Saied’s erosion of Tunisian democracy is isolating the north African country from foreign leaders, donors and investors, Thomas...
...In such a context, hosting trigger-happy Wagner troops also “seems mightily risky”, she argues....
...Cio-Cio-San will be sung alternately by sopranos Karah Son (who studied under the late Mirella Freni) and Gisela Stille; countertenors Evan LeRoy Johnson and Thomas Atkins play the caddish Pinkerton....
...Putin has also followed the oligarch strategy of cultivating and then dropping temporary allies: Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, Germany and France, and now North Korea....
...On Monday the Economist magazine published a commentary under the headline: “Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner’s munity.”...
...Wagner certainly knew how to thunder and rage....
...“The core [FPÖ] message, which is all about ‘us down here versus him up there’, was in ashes just a couple of years ago,” said Thomas Hofer, an Austrian political analyst....
...Later, the Agnellis, the Siemens, Thomas Mann and Aldous Huxley, who wrote his first novel in Forte, holidayed here, ushering in decades of glitz....
...Wernick’s concerto is in two movements after Dylan Thomas: “Do not go gentle . . . ” and “ . . . into that good night”....
...In February 1933, Thomas Mann left his homeland to give a talk on Wagner in Amsterdam; he was travelling in Switzerland when his family in Munich warned him that it wasn’t safe to return....
...“I am like Saint Thomas, I would like to believe, but we need to see real action . . . We need to be sure that these are not troop rotations but withdrawals.”...
...A fictionalised life of Thomas Mann, it sweeps across the early 20th century, from buttoned-up Hanseatic Lübeck to lounging in the Pacific Palisades, Weimar and the twilight of democracy to the rise of Nazism...
...“There’s always one sector that’s at the centre of every distressed cycle,” says Tom Wagner, who set up Knighthead in 2008 to invest in distressed assets. “In this case, it was travel and leisure....
...The leader of the opposition Social Democrats, Pamela Rendi-Wagner, said she supported the plan....
...the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man . . . will be appalled, and so abandon war forever,” predicted the engineer and inventor Thomas...
...He was the cantor, or choirmaster, at the church of St Thomas, and even his physical body has a place in the city’s cycle of destruction and reconstruction....
...Social Democrat leader Pamela Rendi-Wagner met with Freedom Party boss Herbert Kickl again on Saturday afternoon, underscoring the seriousness of the negotiations....
...His nearest rival, the Social Democrat Pamela Rendi-Wagner, polled 12 per cent and 35 per cent said they did not know who they preferred....
...Uptown in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, under the aegis of the Studio Museum Harlem, is an equally strong piece of public sculpture, unveiled in October but on show for a full year: Thomas J Price’s 9ft bronze...
...Karlheinz Stockhausen looked back to the “forward-looking” Richard Wagner for his own crackpot, week-long opera cycle Licht....
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