Three Rivers By Robert Winder Pegasus, 352 pages, $29.95 ByDuwneCote Diane CoLE HREE MAJOR riv- 6 ers, flowing in three different directions, carving out the three val- leys ... gave rise to three great civili- zations—French, German, and Italian.” It may have been a “geological fluke,” yet “without the pattern laid down by these waters, Europe would simply not exist in the form we know it.” So su…
سليم النمار.. ل حين وصلتتي صفحات كتاب «صائد الأمواج»؛ الذي سيصدر عن دار نشر «كل شيء, الحيفاوية؛ والذي كتبه الصديق الوق تاصر عطا الله من مثفاه بعد أن شرزّدته حرب الابادة؛ عن صديقنا المشترك الشهيد الشاعر سليم الثفار, لم أشعر أنني أمام كتاب جديد عن سليم؛ بل شعرت أن سليم نمفسه عاد يطرق باب الذاكرة بقلم: وليد العوض - غزة عاد بوجهه الصبوح, بابتسامته التي كانت تسبق كلامه. بصوته الهادئ. ويذلك الحديث الع…
14_saturday review Saturday August 22 2026 | THE TIMES Last night I dreamt of Daphne again The secret life of the du Maurier clan is revealed by her grandson. By Rob Imost every reader has a favourite first line. Some are so famous they have escaped the gravitational pull of their A. stories and are recognised even by those who don''t know what comes next: “This is the saddest story 1 have ever he…
House dsHome hat have gardens to do with revolution? Not much, you might think, except that revolutionaries overrun them and leave them to go to ruin. You would be wrong. Gardens indeed confront a revolution, the warming climate. There is also talk of a new tax on land following the announcement of a rise in council tax in England, for whose assessment gardens will be significant. Do not underesti…
Housed&oHome hat have gardens to do with revolution? Not much, you might think, except that revolutionaries overrun them and leave them to go to ruin. You would be wrong. Gardens indeed confront a revolution, the warming climate. There is also talk of anew tax on land following the announcement of a rise in council tax in England, for whose assessment gardens will be significant. Do not underestim…
محمد تركي الربيعو « من الج ميل أن تكون لدينا مذكرات يكتبها شرطي عن تجربته، لأن الشرطي يقف في موقع فريد داخل المجتمع. فهويرى الناس في لحظات النزاع والخوف والضعف، ويدخل إلى تفاصيل حياتهم اليومية من خلال الشكاوى والمشاجرات والسرقات والمشكلات العائلية، كما يراقب المدينة من موقع مختلف عن موقع السياسي وا لمثقف. ولهذا يمكن لمذكرات شرطي أن تكون، في الوقت نفسه، سيرة ذاتية ووثيقة اجتماعية وثقافية عن المدينة…
Susan Derges Working outdoors at night, for Derges the landscape becomes a vast darkroom. The river itself can be seen as a long transparency through which even a brief flash of light exposes many details on to light-sensitive paper submerged below the surface, developed afterwards and made into a print. Derges notes how the River Taw on Dartmoor changes in an instant when rain falls on to the hig…
John Berger: the radical who taught us to see art anew A compelling portrait of the writer and critic who brought European ideas to English sensibilities. By Joe Moshenska n 2025, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens hosted an arresting exhibition of works which commented, in pain- fully direct and captivatingly oblique ways, on the relationships between humans and animals. It was tit…
Fairytale families and spellbinding sonnets {RE ROUND-UP [ISN | By Suzi Feay athers writing about daugh- ters is still a comparatively rare subject in poetry. There's the odd poem here and there (Ted Hughes on Frieda, joy- ous; WB Yeats on Anne, apprehensive) but Northern Irish writer Eoghan Walls dedicates most of his third collection of verse to the topic in Elsa and the Wolfman (Seren £10.99). …
icero is dead. The great Roman statesman was assassinated more than two millennia ago, of course; though, for our purposes, we might say that it has been just 11 years. That was when Robert Harris released Dictator, the concluding volume of his “Cicero” trilogy which was as much about the fall of the Roman Republic as it was about its headline character, to an eager public. It was an instant best-…
