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  • Howard Belsey is an English academic who is working on a book that will supposedly deconstruct Rembrandt.

    On Beauty by Zadie Smith 2008

  • Twenty-year-old Jerome Belsey is sending those e-mails from the home of his father's intellectual nemesis.

    Zadie, Take Three 2005

  • Twenty-year-old Jerome Belsey is sending those e-mails from the home of his father's intellectual nemesis.

    Zadie, Take Three 2005

  • Twenty-year-old Jerome Belsey is sending those e-mails from the home of his father's intellectual nemesis.

    Zadie, Take Three 2005

  • The Hollow Man, by Oliver Harris Jonathan Cape, £12.99Harris's debut novel, the first in a projected series, features a wayward, own-worst-enemy type: Nick Belsey of the Hampstead CID.

    Crime roundup – reviews 2011

  • Andrew Belsey Whitstable, KentJonathan Black, head of careers at Oxford University, argued that the government has no long-term strategy for higher education, as dons prepare for a no-confidence vote in the minister, David WillettsBy shifting the burden of debt on to the individual student, the message the government is sending to the youth of today is "you are not worth this country's investment".

    Education letters 2011

  • The Belsey children need to stop worrying about their identity and concern themselves with the people they care about, ideas that matter to them, beliefs they can stand by, tickets they can run on.

    A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

  • Yet each of the Belsey children really seems to struggle to find an identity that works.

    A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

  • The Belsey children don't struggle to find an identity because they're mixed race, they struggle because they are "of Modernity," and the product of a twentieth century that invented and patented this piece of claptrap called "finding an identity," and it drives everybody nuts, mixed race or no.

    A Conversation with Zadie Smith about On Beauty 2010

  • Over on Instructables, Belsey shows how to make your own Alka Seltzer for a fraction of the cost.

    Boing Boing 2008

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