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Сегодня герцогиня Сассекская отмечает 40 лет. 4 Августа 2021 / 12:00 За плечами этой женщины бальзаковского возраста успешная работа внештатным каллиграфом и преподавателем переплетного дела, несложившаяся политическая карьера и карьера в Голливуде, двухлетний официальный брак с режиссером Тревором Энгельсоном, любовь, развод �...

Summer After Summer, a Clan Returns to Cape Cod Credit...Isabel Seliger By Caitlin Macy THE PAPER PALACE By Miranda Cowley Heller A summer place one returns to year after year can serve as a touchstone — some things never change — as well as an object provided for scale. Like a record of children’s names and heights written on the back of a pantry door, each return prompts a reckoning: Where were we then, where are we now? Elle Bishop, the narrator of Miranda Cowley Heller’s appealing debut novel, has spent every summer of her 50-odd years in a family cabin in the backwoods of Cape Co...

Hulton Archive / Getty Images In the late summer of 1777, anyone standing on the banks of the Gulf of Finland might have beheld a most spellbinding sight: a three-masted maritime marvel of polished wood and golden paint, its sails billowing in the northern wind. On the deck of the yacht, they might have spotted the lone figure of a woman, her eyes fixed on the course of the Neva river flowing towards St Petersburg. If they could have seen inside, they would have found contents as exotic as the ship’s story: a menagerie of animals, including small monkeys; an orchestra; two clergymen (a Cath...

The trendy use of pop music in TV dramas is becoming tiresome The Pursuit of Love is the latest costume drama to use an anachronistic soundtrack, and the vogue is becoming irritating in its ubiquity 11 May 2021 • 5:54am The Pursuit of Love features the music of T-Rex and Bryan Ferry, inter alia Credit: BBC/Robert Viglasky Here’s a dilemma. You’re a TV commissioner, and you want a costume drama that will bring prestige to your channel and do well in the overseas market. But wait! Aren’t costume dramas “problematic” nowadays? Dickens was a misogynist. Hardy’s copybook wasn’t ex...