New York
A multicultural microcosm: Brooklyn Crime Novel, by Jonathan Lethem, reviewed
Lethem returns to the borough with a tale of violence, neglect and demographic change over the decades, tinged with nostalgia but far from sentimental
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Gstaad This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to…
Why would you ever leave?
For British taxpayers perturbed by their £6 million daily bill for housing asylum seekers in hotels, New York City mayor…
Terrorist friends and relatives
When a Sri Lankan medical student finds her brothers joining the Tamil Tigers, she is caught in a tangle of commitments to family, friends, homeland and vocation
When the going was good
Though she photographed many society figures of the 1930s, Ker-Seymer lacked ambition and remains largely unknown – as she herself seems to have wanted
The root of the problem
The novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo is attracted by the freedom a New York job promises, but misses the young daughter she has left behind in London
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New York I am seriously thinking of visiting a shrink (just kidding) as I now have definite proof that I…
Who’s pursuing a vendetta?
Lord help me I love a hatchet job, and you’ll have to too if you want to make it through…
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A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time…
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New York Back in the good old days the Carlyle Hotel on Manhattan’s Upper East Side was the hotel for…
New York has become the city that never eats
Is there anything more extraordinary than dining in New York City? Whetheryou’re sitting down for the Michelin star experience of…
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I celebrate two Easters every year, the Catholic one and the Orthodox one, which means I get very drunk on…
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New York Our own Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The left controls…
Shaw thing
It’s good of Nicholas Hytner to let Londoners see David Hare’s new play before it travels to Broadway where it…
All the rage
Aggression is everywhere in New York
Go down, Moses
Robert Gore-Langton on the man who wrecked New York
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New York Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot…
Hustlers and hoodlums
For modern America, Harlem is a once maligned, now much vaunted literary totem, which continues to occupy a gargantuan place…
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It’s nice to be back in London, and Glebe Place is a delight. Mind you, it’s not the mansion I…
New York’s vaccine passport scheme could have a nasty side effect
The latest French export to the United States is a requirement that people show proof of vaccination to visit indoor bars,…
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New York It’s party time in the Bagel, or at least private party time. Yours truly is an extra man…
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New York The acerbic writer Gore Vidal was once asked which period of history he would choose to have lived…
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New York The Big Bagel is getting so bad that even the baddies are demanding the fuzz do something. As…
New Yorkers yakking
New York in a nutshell? No way. New York in a New York minute? Forget about it. The city contains…
The problem with trying to resuscitate dying languages
Samantha Ellis 9 March 2024 9:00 am
Ross Perlin is determined to support the ‘last speakers’ of endangered tongues, such as Seke. But if these speakers really are the last, they are not, in any real sense, speaking