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Julian Barnes. Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art. London, 2015, p. 124, calls its bold design a challenge to the viewer about ways of thinking of portraiture and a foreshadowing of Degas's late work. Kathryn Calley Galitz. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings. New York, 2016, p. 437, no. 355, ill. pp. 364, 437 (color).
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BRIDGET ALSDORF 3 The first in a series of nonsite issues featuring new scholarship on nineteenth-century art, featuring essays by T. J. Clark, Richard Shiff, Susan Sidlauskas, Cordula Grewe, and Samuel Raybone. Issue launched 12 Nov. 2018.
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The Pedant in the Kitchen — Julian Barnes Eating Animals — Jonathan Safran Foer Raw Spirit — Iain Banks. Eating Animals was horrifying, even for someone who already knows a lot of this stuff. Raw Spirit was mainly written by Banks’ inner teenager, but he’s still facetiously amusing and put me on to some new whiskies. Nature.
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JULIAN BARNES ’ twenty-six. Danticat’s essays, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story (Graywolf) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism 2017. Her children’s book My Mommy Medicine (Roaring Brook Press) was a Parents’ Choice Recommended Book. Danticat’s most recent collection of short stories, Everything Inside, was published by Knopf in August.
Early life. Yates's father, John Yates, was a Unitarian minister who served at Kaye Street Chapel in Liverpool, later known as Paradise Street Chapel; his mother, Elizabeth, was the daughter of a merchant, John Brooks Ashton.One of his brothers was Joseph Brooks Yates, mercchant and antiquary. Yates was educated by a Unitarian minister, William Shepherd, at Gateacre, Liverpool, before he.
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The two terms were used as synonyms although hawks and falcons are different types of birds of prey. A fifteenth-century contribution to the literature of hawking, attributed on challengeable authority to one Dame Julian Barnes and printed at St. Albans in 1486, is The Book of St. Albans.
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