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...His earlier, award-winning novel, Sudden Death, uses a made-up game of tennis between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo as a framing device to launch into a boisterous...
...Myerscough, who will also be exhibiting at San Francisco’s FOG Design+Art fair later this month, singles out Marcin Rusak as another name to watch....
...Southern Oaxaca and tourist mecca Quintana Roo — home to the resorts of Cancún — both swung to Morena....
...Even amid Mexico’s high homicide rate, Quintana Roo, where Cancún is located, stands out....
...Didion is renowned for her sharp-eyed reportage — “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, her 1968 account of counterculture in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, for instance, or Salvador, written in 1982...
...politically charged layered canvases, received the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for the Visual Arts in 2020 and shows at galleries including Everard Read in South Africa and Jenkins Johnson in San Francisco...
...This year, though, a friend and I surprised another close friend in San Francisco....
...On the streets, builders, traffic wardens and other blue-collar workers were being paid to carry on as usual....
...Quintana is survived by two sons, Patricio and Francisco....
...Former Calvin Klein creative director Francisco Costa recently launched Costa Brazil, which harvests its oils from the Amazon rainforest....
...Maria Zifchak was heartbreaking as his pleading mother, while James Creswell put in a sturdy performance as George Benton, the prison warden....
...translated by Natasha Wimmer, Harvill Secker, RRP£14.99/ Riverhead, RRP$27 It takes authorial chutzpah to write about a 17th-century tennis match between the Italian painter Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco...
...Warden, for one, expects the phone to ring off the hook....
...So before bed, I knocked on the door of a 65-year-old lawyer from San Francisco and was handed a couple of blue pills. “The first ones are free,” he only half-joked....
...The German engineering group said the system could be used to guide traffic wardens to cars that were illegally parked....
...Is he hoping, as the prison warden suspects, to “redeem the great delinquent, the symbol of his generation”?...
...Angel Gurría-Quintana Literary non-fiction White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World, by Geoff Dyer, Canongate, RRP£16.99/Pantheon, RRP$25 A companion piece of sorts to his excellent Yoga for People...
...“It’s more like a fire warden to make sure the institution is run well so it doesn’t catch on fire and burn down,” Mr Dudley said of the agency’s role during the November Senate hearing....
...Mayanmar mission The UN special rapporteur on human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana, makes an 11-day visit to Mayanmar during which he will meet prisoners of conscience and detained humanitarian staff....
...financial crisis, Lanchester has returned to fiction with a “post-crash state-of-the-nation novel” about millionaire bankers, top-end interior decorators, Senegalese footballers and Zimbabwean traffic wardens...
...According to the Portuguese humanist Francisco de Holanda, Michelangelo condescended to praise the ability of the artists of the Low Countries as they specialised in such low matters as landscape....
...The disturbance, it appears, is connected to an English mathematics student, Alex, who is en route to San Francisco to propose to his American girlfriend....
...The Empty Family includes the story “Barcelona, 1975”, which candidly charts the narrator’s sexual apprenticeship in a city freeing itself from the last shackles of Francisco Franco’s dictatorship....
...between 1936 and 1939 continue to haunt the country, not least because the conflict led to the rise of an oppressive dictatorship that kept a tight lid on historical records until the death of its leader, Francisco...
...He admits that his only memory of his brother, Francisco, who died as a baby, “may well be false”. The humiliations and joys of childhood, magnified by time, are delicately revisited....
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