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-…
12_saturday review ) LVU}JU DOO He was braver than Hornblower, wilder than Byron Thomas Cochrane ‘was a naval hero, Jjailbird, radical MI and revolutionary. By Ge FT The greatest hero of the Romantic era was not Lord Byron, nor Goethe, nor Shelley, nor even one of their LL brooding poetic protagonists. No figure of that age, real or fictional, compares with the subject of this Moore includes Byron…
16 saturday review Saturday August 22 2026 | THE TIMES books I At last a credible Spy heroine A tough woman chases stolen missiles, plus a Philbyish traitor. By James Owen The British Agent by Simon Conway Michael Joseph £16.99 pp448 Not enough spy thrillers feature credible female protagonists. Simon Conway''s previous series starred the metrosexual M16 officer Jude Lyon, but his new novel introd…
Is it all relative? Jim Al-Khalili’s attempt to reconcile subjective experience with the science of time shows how little we still know. By Dylan Neri bout the limits of science, German physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote: “the concepts of natural lan- guage . . . seem to be more stable in the expansion of knowledge than the precise terms of scientific lan- guage.” That is, reality seems to be stran…
n Rachel Cusk’s new novel, an unnamed but apparently female author undertakes to write a bio- graphical portrait of her friend, a world-famous actress referred to only as M. The problem is, she doesn't actually know very much about M, so her account is padded with conjectures on the psychological ravages of fame and the sorts of backhandedly damning observations — about M's inner life, or lack the…
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A Piece Of Her Life’s Mosaic Beginning Middle End By Valeria Luiselli Knopf, 368 pages, $35 The Maltese Version By Katy Simpson Smith FSG Originals, 320 pages, $19 By HELLER MCALPIN N VALERIA LUISELLI'S “Beginning Middle End” a writer in her late 30s, unset- tled by a difficult divorce, travels to Sicily with her 12- year-old daughter in search of her roots and a new start. They land at a friend’s…
الاقتصاد العالمى وإفقار المستقبل يقدم لنا المنظر السياسى والمؤرخ البريطانى «تيموثى ميتشل» ( 1 عاما ). مساهمة فكرية أصيلة وثرية جديدة تضاف إلى تيار نقد الرأسمالية المعاصرة من خلال كتابية الصادر فى مارس2026, فى 0 صفحة. بعنوان: ة راس المال: كيف دمرنا الأرض لسرقة الستقيل وعد بمستقبل أفضل الد له زائل عط عط لذى ما طاع عط عام ا 110 د آه مط عط ده ا 00 ه ]؛ ينطلق المؤلف فى مستهل المقدمة من ملاحظة مفادها أن…
ناتالي الخوري غريب « ل كتب عبده وازن سيرته قارئاً في روايته »الحياة ليست رواية«، الصادرة عن دار المتوسط؟ وكيف تشكّلت هويته القرائية، وإلى أي مدى استطاعت الحيل السردية التي اعتمدها أن تحقق ما يسميه غادامير »انصهار الأآفاق« بين الكاتب والنص والقارئ؟ يسمّي وازن بطله ببساطة »القارى«، وهي الصفة التي تكاد تختصر حياته وهويته، فيقّص بذلك المسيافة بين المؤلف والراوي والبطل لا يستعير له اسما آخر، ولا يختبئ …
