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...Wading into a traditionally male-dominated genre, feminist sci-fi icon Ursula K Le Guin, who taught Robinson literature at the University of California San Diego in 1977, was one of the first to show the...
...The most cited authors are Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson; women, from Ursula K Le Guin to Octavia E Butler, are under-represented, but as the dictionary grows and begins to collect citations...
...Zant-Boer, Farthingstone, England Crossword 16,338: Ailsa Bolton, France; John Morrissey, Surrey, England; RK Ajayakumar, Croydon, England Polymath 1,050: Anthea Sinclair, Edinburgh Crossword 16,332: Thomas...
...— Thomas Guénolé, a French political scientist, has become an expert at puncturing banlieue myths, publishing the book Les jeunes de banlieue mangent-ils les enfants?...
...Neither Le Pen nor Wilders won their respective elections....
...The elderly farmer, Jules Hommet, humorous and thick of dialect, who seems to prefer les Anglais to les Parisiens any day of the week....
...The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life, by John le Carré, Viking, RRP£20 A memoir from the novelist to follow this year’s biography by Adam Sisman....
...the New York Times described it as a “ham-handed fairy tale” reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings and George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones, while on the other side of the genre divide the novelist Ursula Le...
...A fascinating precursor to le Carré’s own promised memoir....
...Not surprisingly, Thomas Rowlandson, the Regency caricaturist who specialised in tumbling pratfalls and amorous romps, registered with a bolting hand, is a favourite....
...Thomas Mann, back from exile in California, spoke, and was booed by German students who thought him “anglicised”....
...One wonders what the children made of holidays in the company of Le Corbusier, Marc Chagall, and Nelson Rockefeller....
...The books beside the bed, les livres de chevet, are supposed to be important to the person who sleeps there, but mine aren’t....
...Geraint Thomas, Olympic cyclist. Sophi Tranchell, managing director, Divine Chocolate....
...In a letter to The Times, he alleged that Osborne had taken a Tory fundraiser on to the Queen K to solicit a donation from Deripaska....
...Dom Gérard Thomas, Les Murgers de Dents de Chien, Premier Cru 2005 St-Aubin £14.99 Waitrose from Nov 20 Very pure, intense white burgundy with attractive lemon and smoke character....
...THE MISSION SONG by John le Carre Hodder & Stoughton ₤17.99, 352 pages With the cold war now a distant memory, le Carre seems to be concentrating on Africa as the stage for his plots of international skulduggery...
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