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The 2024 novel “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey has been awarded the first-ever Climate Fiction Prize. The £10,000 ($13,240) ...
Politically speaking, it is useful to follow the money, the donor dollars. The more greenbacks flow to America's bipartisan ...
Through spats over civil rights, Communism and the opinions of Gore Vidal, William F Buckley Jr became one of the pre-eminent figures in post-war American conservatism.
for Gore Vidal's The Best Man, Best Revival of a Play (Tony Awards) for The Merchant of Venice, Best Play (Tony Awards) for Reasons to Be Pretty, Best Revival of a Musical (Tony Awards ...
However, before that happened, the story of the game was the performance of left-hander MacKenzie Gore on the mound. The team ace went six innings, surrendering just two runs on four hits.
So Jay Parini quotes from TS Eliot’s ‘Gerontion’ at the end of this clear-eyed book, and while he suggests that the question ‘haunts every biographer’, it seems especially apposite here. What can be ...
As the toastmasters say, Gore Vidal needs no introduction ... a milieu reflected not only in his historical novels but his book reviews. I have not read all of Vidal's novels, but the only ones I read ...
One was his heated exchange with Gore Vidal, which became so famous that ... an amazingly prescient book, given the various cancers that have enveloped academia over the past few decades; he ...
the Gore Vidal Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, the item that attracts the greatest attention is Vidal’s screenplay for the porn film Caligula – which he himself described as “easily one of ...