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...Then there’s the disappointment of a novel in which the dying light of the author is all too evident — think Saul Bellow’s Ravelstein or Norman Mailer’s lamentable The Castle in the Forest....
...Finally, do read David Wallace-Wells’ bracing NYT essay on whether America is ready for back-to-back pandemics....
...The beautiful Wallace drinking fountains still work, unlike London’s, which are mostly dry and clogged up with leaves and fag-ends....
...Benji Wallace, a 19-year-old poet and rapper tells me that, for his work, the past is not prologue. BENJI WALLACE: A lot of it isn't inspired by all of the conflict and the kind of division....
...V Vaccination Pretty much the only thing that stood between Novak Djokovic and this year’s Australian Open title. Oops....
...On loan from the V&A, it’s an intricate, flashy conundrum that mixes eras, ideas and techniques with breathtaking audacity....
...London’s exhibition season began with psychedelic tea parties and disappearing rabbits in the V&A’s immersive wonderland Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser and ended with translucent, spidery, electricified...
...This is not just a recent phenomenon: Adam quotes Mark Jones, former director of London’s V&A, on Richard Wallace (1818-90), founder of the Wallace Collection, who “was an outsider, because of being illegitimate...
...Chinese companies need a back-up chip architecture, as do Nvidia’s US rivals, and Risc-V is Arm’s obvious replacement....
...But Taylor’s story, which follows Wallace — a gay, black biochemistry student transplanted from his home in Alabama to a university in the Midwest — as he struggles amid wealth and white privilege, puts...
...“After tonight, Donald Trump will have to run against a candidate, not a caricature,” Mr Wallace told his viewers....
...With the dealer the picture of conservative masculine elegance, in his cashmere V-neck and tie leaning on an antique chair, a touch of melancholy in his eyes, the image has curious poignancy....
...Camilla Wallace, partner and head of private client group at Wedlake Bell, says your parents are right to be concerned....
...In 2017, a German appeals court in Hamm agreed to hear a case brought by Saul Luciano Lliuya, a Peruvian farmer who claims that RWE should be held accountable for climate change, specifically the melting...
...Once I was done wincing at all its many simplifications, the absence of fellow evolutionary pioneer Alfred Russel Wallace and all the rest of it, it dawned on me that this jumped-up, family-friendly puppet...
...This year, 21 teenagers will get a hearing in the California appeals court for their claim in Juliana v US that the government failed to protect their rights to life, liberty and property by promoting the...
...In the 1970s, US psychologists Paul Ekman and Wallace V Friesen developed a taxonomy of human emotion called the Facial Action Coding System....
...She attended Temple University and married her brother’s friend, Saul Windsor, after graduating with a bachelors degree in 1950. The marriage lasted less than a year....
...Security minister Ben Wallace said police “are trying to roll up a network”....
...Between them, the V&A and the National Gallery and the Wallace Collection composed the only map of the place that I had in my head....
...(TPM) Campaign commentary It is time to panic over the polls (Jonathan Chait, NYMag) Why Trump shouldn’t be president (NYT editorial board) The minivan v the Maserati (Nicole Wallace, NYT) Clinton’s...
...(Politico) Campaign commentary A vote for Trump is a vote for China (Isaac Stone Fish, Foreign Policy) Hillary Clinton vs the 1990s (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker) Democrats are headed off their...
...Cricket yielded a great book (CLR James’s Beyond a Boundary, 1963) and tennis a great essay (David Foster Wallace’s “Federer as Religious Experience”, 2006)....
...“It bothers me a lot that you want to . . . broadcast that you’re associating with black people,” he told the woman, who goes by the name of V Stiviano....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
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