Lessons from a rogue | Roy Cohn walks towards his Bentley in New York, 1977 — view vst es Reduxieyevioe A gripping biography of Roy Cohn, the chief counsel for Joseph McCarthy who went on to inspire Donald Trump's playbook. By Christopher Grimes n October 1973, Donald Trump was an ambitious 27-year-old from Queens trying to push his way into the world of Manhattan real estate. One evening he met R…
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| Childhood Memories of the End Times Light While There Is Light By Keith Waldrop NYRB Classics, 216 pages, $16.95 By Luke Lyman IKE THE BOOK OF GENESIS, Keith Waldrop’s “Light While There Is Light” is the history of a family that doesn’t quite get along. This forceful memoir recounts the Waldrop house- hold’s pilgrimages across America’s Holy Spirit- scorched heartland. Everywhere the members of …
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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…
