An Epic Literary Odyssey Homer-Haunted By Henry Power Bloomsbury Continuum, 352 pages, $32 By James Rovm HE TERM “Homer- haunted” could certainly be used to describe the “Odyssey” obsessed sum- mer of 2026, but in fact “Homer-Haunted: The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet” deals with poems, not films. Its author, Henry Power, a pro- fessor of English literature at the Univer- sity of Exeter, take…
فى كتاب »نجيب محفوخ .. صداقة جيلين« لمحمد جبريل صاحب نوبل يعترف: أنا كمال عبد الجواد.. والسب فى أغسطس الجارى، وبالتحديد فى العاشر منه، تمر عشرون عاما على رحيل صاحب نوبل، وعميد الرواية العربية نجيب محفوظ، و لا بد أن يكون الاحتفاء بهذه الذكرى مناسبا لعبقرية وعظمة صاحبها. فالرجل الذى رفع رأس الأدب العربى فى عصرنا الحديث عاليا، يستحق ما هو أكبر بكثير من الاحتفاء العابر. جمعت الأديب الكبير الراحل محمد …
Keys to a lost passion Nadia Beard'’s memoir is a compelling account of a pianist’s rekindled love for her instrument. By Diane Cole adia Beard, like me, isa pro- fessional writer and ama- teur pianist whose passion for music led her to return asan adult to where she had lett oft in her keyboard studies so many years before. That's only one reason why Beard's enthralling memoir, The Melody of Thin…
Love on the Backstreets of 1980s Jamaica FICTION SAM SACKS A group of gay men form a theater troupe in Jamaica. Drama and violence ensue. AMONG THE STRONGEST sen- sations inspired by Marlon James’s “The Disappear- ers” (Riverhead, 640 pages, $32) is a nostalgia for 1980s pop culture. Edmond “Eddy” Porteous, one of the novel’s narrators, is an 18-year-old gay man in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1988, and …
Keys to a lost passion Nadia Beards memoir is a compelling account ofa pianist rekindled love for her instrument. By Diane Cole adiabeard, likeme, isapro- fessional writer and ama. teur pianist whose pasion tor musicled her to return. asanadulttowhereshe had left oft in hr keyboard studies so many years before. That's only one reason why Beard’ enthralling memoir, The Melody of Things, moved me so…
في اطار السعي لاتمام موسوعة ارشيف بصري يمتد لنحو قرن من الزمان. صدر ويوزع حاليا في بغداد وبراغ» ولندن» وعواصم اخرى. اصدار جديد يضم نحو 200 صورة وصورة. يعود بعضها لقرن من الزمان .. وجاء التعريف على الغلاف الاخير: ان الاصدار جاء خلاصة بعض حصاد لنحو ثلاثة ارباع قرن. مع الجواهري: في البيت والخؤولة ومرافقة والسفر. وكذلك المؤامنة. وللمجالس امانات كما هو معروف ! .. لقد ضم الاصدار ( الالبوم تلكم المنتي صو…
The upstarts who created an empire Robert Harris is back in Rome, imagining the rise of Augustus and his loyal sidekick. By Antonia Senior tis one of the most improbable stories in history. Two ambitious and underestimated adolescents launch x unlikely coup. They kill off an ling but ancient republic and replace it with a monarchy that will last centuries. One of the two, Augustus, becomes a god. …
hen John Herbert wrote his incendiary queer play Fortune and Men's Eyes in 1967, homosex- ual acts were still illegal in his native Canada. When, at the beginning of Marlon James's Booker Prize-longlisted The Disappearers, eight gay men meet in 1988 to discuss staging a production of Herbert's play in King- ston, homosexual acts remain illegal in Jamaica. A conviction could be pun- ished with 10 y…
On an accidental mission for MI6 William Boyd's latest Dax novel revisits 1960s spycraft with signature humour and irony, writes Magdalena Miecznicka tis 1964, and travel writer Gabriel Dax is having breakfast at a café on the Santa Monica Pier. Officially, he has come to California to research his next book. Unotlicially, he is running an errand for MI6. The poet he is there to meet possesses vit…
All things great and strange Rebecca Abrams ona genre-defying portrait of a Polish village through the 20th century Iga Tokarczuk’s third novel Primeval and Other Times, first published in Poland in 1996, met with instant critical acclaim and established her as one of Europe's most exciting contemporary nov- elists. Published in English in 2010 and reissued now (trans- lated as before by Antonia L…
