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Evelyn Waugh

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First Reported May 25 2012 - Updated May 25 2012 - 1 Documents

John Lewis PLC

John Lewis menswear department, Oxford Street

Fans of Evelyn Waugh would probably have looked fondly at the John Lewis menswear department in days gone by. ... [ Published May 25 2012 by Drapers ]

Entities: John Lewis PLC, Evelyn Waugh

First Reported May 24 2012 - Updated May 24 2012 - 1 Documents

George Osborne

Posh, Duke of York's theatre, review

reviews Posh at the Duke of York's theatre If they had any time to take an interest in the theatre, David Cameron and George Osborne might just get the paranoid impression that the dramatist Laura Wade is stalking them.Her play Posh, about an Oxford dining ... [ Published May 24 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Laura Wade, George Osborne, The Conservative Party (United Kingdom), Richard Goulding

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

Henry Lloyd-Hughes

Posh – review

Duke of York's, London With even a Tory attacking the "arrogant, posh boys" who run her party, now seems a good time to revive Laura Wade's 2010 play.It has undergone a good deal of revision since its Royal Court premiere, necessarily acknowledging that ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Henry Fairlie, Steffan Rhodri, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Evelyn Waugh

First Reported May 23 2012 - Updated May 23 2012 - 1 Documents

JK Rowling

Views | Beyond Harry Potter

J.K. Rowling’s new novel will almost certainly be the biggest selling fiction title of the year. All this, of course, will not have anything really to do with its qualityThe amazon.com page on J.K. Rowling’s first adult novel, The Casual Vacancy, carries ... [ Published May 23 2012 by Livemint.com ]

Entities: JK Rowling, Harry Potter, Agatha Christie

First Reported May 20 2012 - Updated May 20 2012 - 1 Documents

Alex Higgins

I've never been so insulted...

In honour of a campaign to revoke the law that prohibits insults, we present some of the rudest remarks ever made. The insult took its honourable place in British life on the basis that if it didnt hurt, it didnt work. These days, though, the prohibitionists ... [ Published May 20 2012 by Telegraph ]

Entities: Randolph Churchill, Alex Higgins, Evelyn Waugh, Public Order Act, Benign Tumor

First Reported May 15 2012 - Updated May 15 2012 - 1 Documents

10 great historical novels

The Observer’s William Skidelsky has taken it upon himself to list ‘The 10 best historical novels’. The usual suspects are present: War and Peace, The Leopard, I Claudius and The Blue Flower. There are a couple of surprising inclusions, too: Eliot’s Romola, ... [ Published May 15 2012 by Spectator ]

Entities: William Skidelsky, Pat Barker, Robert Graves

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

Posy Simmonds

Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, British Library

A splendid national narrative moves from Anglo-Saxon latitudes to platform 9 and three quartersShareLiterary correction: The Rebecca Notebook, Daphne Du Maurier's notebook © Chichester PartnershipWordsworth would not be happy. The bard of Grasmere once ... [ Published May 14 2012 by The Arts Desk ]

Entities: United Kingdom, Fay Godwin, Posy Simmonds, Alan Garner, Elizabeth Gaskell

First Reported May 02 2012 - Updated May 02 2012 - 1 Documents

College Preps

Megalyn Echikunwoke, Greta Gerwig and Analeigh Tipton play it smart in Whit Stillman's whimsical new film, the director's first in more than a decade.In the three films he made during the 1990s, Whit Stillman established himself as the Evelyn Waugh of ... [ Published May 02 2012 by Style Weekly ]

Entities: Whit Stillman, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Analeigh Tipton, Suicide Prevention

First Reported May 02 2012 - Updated May 02 2012 - 1 Documents

The Knowns and the Unknowns

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and ReligionBy Jonathan Haidt(Pantheon Books, 419 pp., $28.95)Sometime in the early 1970s I had an illuminating conversation with an expert on Soviet affairs. We ended up discussing Solzhenitsyn, ... [ Published May 02 2012 by The New Republic Online ]

Entities: Jonathan Haidt, Morality, Evelyn Waugh, Victor Klemperer

First Reported Apr 14 2012 - Updated Apr 14 2012 - 1 Documents

Books that changed me: R.J. Palacio

American graphic designer and children's author R.J. Palacio on her favourite books.War and Peace - Leo TolstoyLike the character Via in Wonder, I read War and Peace when I was a teenager. I have no idea what got into me to be truthful, except that I ... [ Published Apr 14 2012 by Melbourne Age ]

Entities: Leo Tolstoy, Evelyn Waugh, The Bodley Head, Cormac McCarthy, JRR Tolkien

First Reported Apr 09 2012 - Updated Apr 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Boxing Up

My first short story for this magazine, back in 1993, was a piece called "Filthy with Things.” It concerns a couple so caught up in the mania of collecting and acquiring that they find their living space reduced to the odd trail wending its way through ... [ Published Apr 09 2012 by New Yorker ]

Entities: Evelyn Waugh, Harry Ransom, Boxing, Thomas Pynchon, Insect

First Reported Apr 07 2012 - Updated Apr 07 2012 - 2 Documents

From hack to hero - a farcical odyssey

Reader rating:None yet. Although The New Republic is Lionel Shriver's latest novel, it was written in 1998. Back then, she tells us, her publisher wasn't interested in a novel about foreigners and while September 11 changed that, it didn't help her much ... [ Published Apr 07 2012 by Melbourne Age ]

Entities: Kellogg Company, Lionel Shriver, Tom Sharpe, Evelyn Waugh

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John Lewis menswear department, Oxford Street [ Published May 25 2012 by Drapers ]
Posh, Duke of York's theatre, review [ Published May 24 2012 by Telegraph ]
Posh – review [ Published May 23 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
Views \| Beyond Harry Potter [ Published May 23 2012 by Livemint.com ]
I've never been so insulted... [ Published May 20 2012 by Telegraph ]
10 great historical novels [ Published May 15 2012 by Spectator ]
Any Human Heart: An affair to remember [ Published May 15 2012 by New Zealand Herald ]
Art out of anarchy [ Published May 14 2012 by Australian Art Review ]
Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, Bri... [ Published May 14 2012 by The Arts Desk ]
Q&A with author Patrick Flanery [ Published May 13 2012 by New Jersey Online ]
Christopher Buckley's bite is sharp and serious... [ Published May 10 2012 by Cleveland Live ]
Game of Thrones post: Emilia Clarke Interview [ Published May 04 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ]
College Preps [ Published May 02 2012 by Style Weekly ]
The Knowns and the Unknowns [ Published May 02 2012 by The New Republic Online ]
Wood: Edward St. Aubyn?s ?At Last? [ Published Apr 30 2012 by New Yorker ]
Boyd Tonkin: James Joyce has escaped from the c... [ Published Apr 28 2012 by The Independent ]
About Last Night by Adele Parks [ Published Apr 26 2012 by FemaleFirst.co.uk ]
The Bard and the Censor [ Published Apr 23 2012 by Hindustan Times ]
Spear's Book Awards 2010 [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Spear's ]
In Their Own Words: DVD Review [ Published Apr 18 2012 by DVDFile.com ]
'I'm Fascinated By How People F**k Up' [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Huffington Post UK ]
T.C. Boyle's notes join Mailer's and DeLillo's [ Published Apr 18 2012 by Lake Wylie Pilot ]
Jorge Herralde Honoured With The London Book Fa... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Booktrade - Book2Book ]
Books that changed me: R.J. Palacio [ Published Apr 14 2012 by Melbourne Age ]
William Boyd: Our man in 007 land [ Published Apr 14 2012 by The Independent ]
In the News: Manly Magazines, Economics of Erotica [ Published Apr 13 2012 by New Yorker ]
Book review: The New Republic by Lionel Shriver [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Northside ]
Sacramental vision [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Spectator ]
I love paperbacks but they do disintegrate; so ... [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Mail Online UK ]
Whit Stillman [ Published Apr 12 2012 by Time Out Chicago ]

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Game of Thrones post: Emilia Clarke Interview [ Published May 04 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] Emilia Clarke has a certain kind of nubile beauty that’s irresistible to casting directors. She’s one of those child-women who’s all bee-stung lips, broad brow and soft, round visage, a facade of über-innocence that’s always hiding anything but. On an ...
Half the civil service has a CBE. It's not surp... [ Published Jan 27 2012 by Culture ] Should writers accept honours from the state? Kipling, though generally regarded, I suppose, if mistakenly, as a pillar of the Establishment, believed they shouldn’t. He accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature and honorary degrees from universities, but ...
Jane Austen biographer discovers 'lost portrait' [ Published Dec 06 2011 by Oh No They Didn't! ] Jane Austen scholar Dr Paula Byrne claims to have discovered a lost portrait of the author which, far from depicting a grumpy spinster, shows a writer at the height of her powers and a woman comfortable in her own skin. The only accepted portraits of ...