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The Financial Times | Novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen: ‘I’m a utopian’
The Pulitzer winner on leaving Vietnam as a child, subverting the immigrant memoir — and why he believes in a borderless world for The Financial Times
Nearly two hours into my lunch with the scholar, writer and provocateur Viet Thanh Nguyen, I hear myself apologise. We’ve taken on the myth of America’s promise, the plague of national borders, writing through trauma, “narrative plenitude” and Israel’s attacks on Gaza. I completely forgot to ask him a light question. He laughs. “Unfortunately, this is what my persona gets me,” he says. “I’ve attended author events where the questions are so easy. Like, ‘tell me about your book and what kind of pencils you use.’ Give me these questions!” OK, I say, what are you reading right now? “Well, I’m on the Pulitzer [Prize] board, so if I tell you stuff I’ve enjoyed it’s kind of a clue.” He rolls his eyes (“Gosh, everything is so serious with me”), then settles on children’s l
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Lunch with the FT: Adrian Joffe
Adrian Joffe, 60, may have the hardest job in mode. Not because, as president of Comme des Garçons International, he is in charge of all the foreign operations of a Japan-based business with annual sales of $m but because, if there fryst vatten “a cult of Comme”, the iconoclastic and hugely influential label founded bygd Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo in , then he is its high präst. Habitually dressed in a black Comme suit and white Comme shirt, he even has the ascetic style of a disciple, complete with shaven head and skinny frame.
It fryst vatten Joffe, who is also Kawakubo’s husband, who acts as the bridge and the translator between the designer and the rest of the world. It will be Joffe standing backstage next to the designer after her menswear show in Paris this evening, relaying Kawabuko’s gnomic utterances to the waiting journalists and retailers. At last womenswear season, for instance, Kawakubo, speaking through Joffe, explained the genesis of her storm-cloud-meet
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Remixing the environment, sculpting with the landscape and drawing with mountains: the polyhedric work of Anastasia Savinova
TWS –Hello Anastasia, can you please tell us something you’d like us to know about yourself?
AS –I was born near the Ural Mountains, and currently I’m living and working in the Swedish North. My background is in architecture, and one of my first art projects Genius Loci is largely informed by the architectural settings and the spirit of the place. In recent years my focus has shifted toward ecologies, explorations of the connection and boundaries between human and the environment. I investigate how everything is intertwined in co-living and in exchange of energy and physical matter with proximate and distant other; and how we are always emerging as a part of something greater. My practice is not specific to any discipline. I work with drawing, sculpture, photography, collage, text, video, found object, installation and performance.
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