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…
في 15 أغعسطر من عام 2010 رحل عن عالمنا أحد رواد الفكر التنموي بعد أن شغل مناصب عدة في المملكة العربية السعودية والبحرين وهو الدكتور غازي بن عبدالرحمن القصيبي. انشغل الدكتور القصيبي بقضية التنمية وأصدر كتابا قيما عام 1982 بعنوان »التنمية... الأسئلة الكبرى« )المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر(. طرح في هذا الكتاب رؤيته التنموية ولخصها في أن »أي تغيير لا يخدم الإنسان اقتصاديا واجتماعيا وسياسيا وثقافيا فه…
[ thought having a dog How not to look after a mutt — a memoir about owning a needy, neurotic greyhound. By Chloé Ashby y husband and I are often asked if our scruffy lurcher is a rescue dog, not because of how she looks, but how she behaves. On a busy pavement, she inches past shopfronts with her wiry tail tucked between her legs, ducking into every open doorway. The first time the question came …
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Under whose influence? Jared Diamond asks whether leaders or luck play a greater part in steering the course of history. By Bronwen Maddox i tempting o respond to thettle offared Diamond's tet book, Pr- its, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) Do Leaders Make a Differ 2 witha parallel query of “when do editors make difference?” When they force an author to pose a clear question and answer it might…
books A Why Trumps aritts will never beat global trade A lively look at how supply chains have made the world richer — and smaller. By Emma Duncan ecently pensioned off from flying Virgin Atlantic passengers to New York and the Caribbean, an Airbus A340 lands in Bournemouth from Urumgi in Xinjiang. It is part of a fleet of aircraft that ply routes to small British airports from Chengdu, Chongqing,…
