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-…
8 FTWeekend 22 August/23 August 2026 HousedsHome 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 wi…
The landing of King Harald Hardrada near York ALAMY [t''s 1066 and all that (now with added Viking violence) To understand Anglo-Saxon England in the 11th century, you need to know its place in the Viking world. By Dan Jones ol RNS IN AUTUMN Nineteen Days in Autumn A New History of 1066 by Erin Goeres Viking £25 pp320 Events are juiced up by a Norwegian soldier’s dream-vision of ‘an enormous troll…
This is a novel of unprece Meg Mason had a big hit with Sorrow and Bliss. Her follow-up is vacuous. By Johanna Thomas-Corr hen Meg Mason’ Sorrow and Bliss was published n 2021 it seemed to nfect the reading public. ‘he New Zealanders third novel — following other works that had slipped into the world without ‘making any noise — sold hundreds of thousands of copies, gathering prize ions, a screen d…
التجوال بين اليسار واليحيت ف أسعد أبو خليل هذه مراجعة لمذكرات وليد جنبلاط، »«قدز في هذا المشرق: من الحرب الأهليّة إلى السلام المستحيل« )في نيسحتها العربية ويعلم جنبلاط أنه في مذكّراته وفي حلقاته وندواته حظوا والسياسي جنبلا المهاديداي المتحيفة مع أنظمةالخليج ي العربي ملائم له ومُسهل. ومواقف اعطته مساحة متعاطفة في الإعلام إلعربي المهيمن، كما أن الوسط الإعلأمي المتصل، مباشرء أو مداورة بانظمة الخليح…
The long reach of gunfire Surviving a mall shooting leads a woman to re-examine motherhood, migration and mourning. By Lucy Popescu dwidge Danticat’s story “Sun- rise, Sunset”, from her 2019 collection Everything Inside, captured the devastating toll of Alzheimer’s disease on a grandmother and her daughter. In her poignant fifth novel Déy, Danticat writes of another grandmother's men- tal fragilit…
Big Little Lies gets bigger In this seriously fun sequel the Sydney sisterhood are ageing like stroppy teens. y Patricia Nicol he Australian blockbuster writer Liane Moriarty recently likened menopausal women to adolescents. “Your fifties is a strange time, almost like being a teenager yourself,” she told The Sunday Times. “Your teen children''s hormones are going crazy. And you''re going crazy. A…
A Dutch Novelist Deserving of Every Plaudit N % Y FICTION SAM SACKS Only two of Anjet Daanje’s 10 novels have been published in English. THE NOBEL PRIZE in literature has always been highly Euro- centric, so it is odd that the Netherlands has never fielded a recipient. This is assuredly a consequence of bad luck rather than a measurement of merit. Harry Mulisch, the author of “The Assault” (1982) …
The first summer's tale Eric Rohmer’s 1946 novel heralds the screen classics the French director would go on to make. By Tobias Grey ric Rohmer was the Scarlet Pimpernel of the French New Wave, so elusive as to be almost invisible. The product of a rigid bour- geois Catholic upbringing, in the 1950s and '60s the director masqueraded asa teacher of classics, long after he had left the profession, s…
