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Including race, nationality, sexuality & other "protected" characteristics in a professional CV is blackmail. They have nothing to do with one's ability to do the job.

No. Although most people -- including, regrettably, your immediate family -- *will* sell you out for 30 pieces of silver when their own interests are at stake, there will be also one or two willing to risk their lives for you. Someone had jumped into the rip current when my

V. S. Pritchett in The Paris Review echoing, word for word, the great Michael Haneke. Writers, write about what you know! Writing, if done properly Flaubert-style -- by rolling on the floor looking for that 'mot juste'; by taking out a comma in the morning only to put it back at

A masterclass in naturalistic detail from Henry Miller (Tropic of Capricorn, 1939). Every bit as graphic a Martin Amis or Anaïs Nin --without the emetic vulgarity of the former and the caricaturish pomp of the latter. So go and learn how to write a sex scene from Miller, I might

Emmanuel Macron was voted into office in 2017 & 2022 by enthusiastic electorate fully aware of his unorthodox private life & thinking nothing of it. If anything, we admired him for it. As a successful investment banker in Paris, he was expected to date fashion models &