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Yesterday — 14 November 2024Main stream

The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics

✇NYT | China
By: Alex Marshall
14 November 2024 at 05:32
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.

The British Museum Gets a Giant Gift: $1.27 Billion of Chinese Ceramics

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alex Marshall
14 November 2024 at 05:32
Sir Percival David’s collection, amassed in the early 1900s, includes prized vases and wine cups. “You simply couldn’t build up a collection like this today,” one expert said.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Samantha Harvey’s ‘Orbital’ Wins the Booker Prize

✇NYT | Top Stories
By: Alex Marshall
13 November 2024 at 06:27
Most bets were on Percival Everett’s “James,” but the judges chose Harvey’s “beautiful, miraculous” novel, which is set aboard a space station.

© Henry Nicholls/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

While writing the novel, Samantha Harvey said she watched a YouTube stream showing Earth from space. She found the images “intimate and domestic,” she said.
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