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“The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz,” Reviewed

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Delmore Schwartz died in the early morning of July 11, 1966, in an ambulance on the way to Roosevelt Hospital. He’d been living alone in a seedy hotel near Times Square, reading compulsively and scribbling in the many notebooks that he kept during his last, itinerant years. At fifty-two, he was no longer the precocious young writer and critic—“blazing with insight, warm with gossip,” as his friend John Berryman described him—who had charmed poetry’s old masters and young upstarts alike.

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Fascinating map reveals the WORST reviewed three-star Michelin restaurants in the US – from the $325-a-meal Chicago eatery serving ‘inedible’ chocolate caviar to ‘catastrophic’ $750 sushi in New York

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These fancy, highly-acclaimed restaurants have certainly left a bad taste with some customers.

DailyMail.com has analyzed reviews left by Tripadvisor users to find some the worst ratings for three-star Michelin eateries in the US.

Despite their merit and high price points, there are seven restaurants with dozens of reviews deeming them ‘poor’ or ‘terrible.’ 

Bite your way down to see some of the complaints dished out by disgruntled diners – with everything from poor customer service and inedible dishes to

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Every bill in the King’s Speech, reviewed and rated – POLITICO

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LONDON – This is the list of new laws Rishi Sunak hopes will save his skin come election-time.

Tuesday’s King’s Speech — in which King Charles III read out the British government’s legislative agenda for the crucial pre-election term ahead — was packed with promises from Sunak’s Conservative Party.

With the clock ticking down to an election which must be held before the end of January 2025, the King’s

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“The Slip,” Reviewed: The Street That Shaped Agnes Martin and Ellsworth Kelly

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Has anyone bothered to thank Pepsi for its crucial little role in American culture? The year was 1947, and a young Mississippi artist named Fred Mitchell was trying to expand his horizons. He entered one of his paintings in a contest and won a cash prize of fifteen hundred dollars—close to twenty grand today—courtesy of the sponsor, the Pepsi-Cola Company. Mitchell used his winnings to sail to Europe, where he spent the next three years meeting artists and inhaling modernism.

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Heidi Julavits’s “Directions to Myself,” Reviewed

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Life so often rhymes with reading; what happens on the page primes our expectations for what we’ll find beyond it. So, a few weeks ago, as I was sitting on a sidewalk bench with “Directions to Myself” (Hogarth), Heidi Julavits’s new memoir, it seemed inevitable that a posse of teen-age boys should come strutting down the avenue, jostling and preening for their own benefit and that of the neighborhood at large. “I’m not listening to your bitch ass,” one shouted

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“Spare,” Reviewed: The Haunting of Prince Harry

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Balmoral Castle, in the Scottish Highlands, was Queen Elizabeth’s preferred resort among her several castles and palaces, and in the opening pages of “Spare” (Random House), the much anticipated, luridly leaked, and compellingly artful autobiography of Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, its environs are intimately described. We get the red-coated footman attending the heavy front door; the mackintoshes hanging on hooks; the cream-and-gold wallpaper; and the statue of Queen Victoria, to which Harry and his older brother, William, always

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A New Book on Parasites, Reviewed

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A vacation in the Catskills, one of those beautiful summer days which seem to go on forever, with family friends down at a local pond. I must have been six. I waded around happily, in and out of the tall grasses that grew in the murky water, but when I emerged onto the shore my legs were studded with small black creatures. “Leeches! Don’t touch them!” my mother yelled. I stood terrified. My parents’ friends lit cigarettes and applied the

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Steven Spielbergs „The Fabelmans“ und „Bones and All“, Reviewed

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Ein römisch-katholischer Junge aus meiner Bekanntschaft blieb bei seinem ersten Besuch im Kino stehen, um im Gang eine Kniebeuge zu machen, bevor er Platz nahm. Ein absolut nachvollziehbarer Fehler. Die gleiche Art von Ehrfurcht erfüllt Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord), einen kleinen jüdischen Jungen, als er sich zu Beginn von Steven Spielbergs „The Fabelmans“ dem unbeschreiblichen Geheimnis der großen Leinwand hingibt. Kein Kniebeugen, aber Sammy hat noch nie einen Film gesehen, und seine Augen weiten sich vor köstlicher Angst beim

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