Early in Sally Rooney’s new novel Intermezzo, one of the central characters — Peter, a 32-year-old lawyer in Dublin — finds himself weeping in the street some weeks after his father’s death.
Ahead of her fourth novel, Intermezzo, out Sept. 24, 140 bookstores across the U.S. will host release parties—a treatment usually reserved for blockbuster series about wizards, fairies ...
Certainly, before Intermezzo, I had grown used to the uniformity of Rooney’s sentences, the affectlessness of which razed any false separations between the flow of capital and the freedom to be ...
A few years ago, we had the opportunity to drive a 1939 GM Futurliner—one of the most unique and awe-inspiring vehicles ever ...
It’s maybe the summer’s most sought-after galley: Sally Rooney’s “Intermezzo,” her fourth novel, has a lot of hype to live up to. The Irish writer — known for exploring interpersonal ...
Intermezzo is a heart-wrenching drama, the kind the classic Hollywood loved; however, it will always be remembered as the ...
And so to Intermezzo, Rooney’s fourth. A lawyer in his mid-30s, Peter, sleeps with (and gives money to) a 23-year-old student, Naomi; his younger brother, Ivan, a chess prodigy who is around ...
In 1939, the United States Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world, possessing a cavalry force of fifty thousand and using horses to pull the artillery. Many Americans — still trying to recover ...
Grief will surely prove to be fertile emotional territory for Rooney. But whatever the Intermezzo reviews are like, you get the impression that she is her own harshest critic – and that it ...
Germany invades Poland, leading Great Britain and France to declare war against Germany. May 15, 1940 In the first large scale “bombing war,” Britain’s Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs the Ruhr ...
Leslie Howard Steiner (3 April 1893 – 1 June 1943) was an English actor, director and producer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was ...