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...Deftly translated by Imogen Taylor, the book is an astute, deeply empathic portrayal of the dislocation of first-generation immigrants and intergenerational trauma....
...That split is physically represented in Rosa Maggiora’s set, which slices the stage in two horizontally, with Queen Victoria and her courtiers on a platform and the Indian immigrants below, grappling to...
...However, she makes the astute point that Conservative opposition to the particular blueprint that Bevan chose, involving the nationalisation of even voluntary-run hospitals, fostered an indelible narrative...
...Lit is an astute commentator, yet in recent years, finance has needed little help satirising itself....
...But as an observer who immigrated as a child, Ma offers an astute insider-outsider perspective and a sharp eye for detail....
...Of blue-collar Jewish immigrant stock — his father was a butcher and meat dealer — he was born in 1940 in the Bronx, New York, and grew up in Sunnyside, Queens....
...Shteyngart, born in Leningrad (now St Petersburg) and raised in New York, has, from the outset of his career, been an hilariously astute and often prescient observer and satirist of his adopted country;...
...Sitting on the green couch from which she often writes, Nolan is as confessional, wry and astute in person as she is in prose....
...The immigrant experience, often missing from conventional analysis, gets proper attention here — in particular the evidence of immigrants moving down to lower status occupations than those they had left...
...Playhouse Theatre, London to February 29 thejamielloydcompany.com RAGS The Musical Touching and heartfelt production of Joseph Stein’s musical about Jewish immigrants trying to make their way in 1910 to...
...But Gary LaBarbera, the politically astute head of New York’s builders’ union, delighted in portraying Stern as a sort of unscrupulous developer, exploiting non-union workers....
...Superficial observations aside, this astute debut from Osaka-born Iwaki Kei, who settled in Australia more than 20 years ago, deserves the awards it has won to date, and much more....
...US and eastern European populisms are similar in expressing contempt for establishment elites as well as hatred and fear of immigrants....
...The law, in the shape of local bobby Sergeant Williams (Karl Haynes), turns a blind eye — in fact, furnished with a glass or two of rum by the astute Pearl, he’s rather taken by the whole affair....
...The list of doubters extends beyond Viktor Orban, Hungary’s conservative nationalist prime minister, and Matteo Salvini, Italy’s anti-immigrant deputy premier....
...An author justly acclaimed for his portrayals of women — from the mother of Jesus to a 1950s Brooklyn immigrant — proves a far-sighted guide to the country of old men....
...But he was also an astute observer and wry social critic who produced beauty that anyone, even sceptical sophisticates, can enjoy....
...On such issues, the Social Democrats are taking the unconventional step of occupying the same turf as the anti-immigrant, populist Danish People’s party....
...Coates is one of America’s most astute commentators on race but he’s better known for wordy think pieces in The Atlantic magazine than superhero escapades....
...When we raised this last week, some astute commenters noted that the number of housing starts is an imperfect measure of residential construction activity, mainly because a large chunk of residential construction...
...A past levy on oil landings negotiated by astute Shetlanders paid for generous leisure and welfare facilities as well as the £200m charitable trust....
...It’s not just about the bottom line, though; Marvel’s president, Kevin Feige, has also been remarkably astute in the creative choices he’s made....
...The conversation veered to the fate of the children of immigrant origins....
...In this changing climate, astute seed merchants discovered the potential of mail order by incremental experience....
...year — O’Brien shows no sign of the irritation with literature’s trappings (character, plot, description) that can afflict some older writers: her prose is as lyrically arresting as ever, her vision as astute...
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