السجال المستعاد حول تمويل «أبواق الماركسية الغريبة» مارلين كنعان منذ صدور كتاب المفكر والمؤرخ والمنظر السياسي الأميركي - الفرنسي غابرييل روكهيل (مواليد 1997/3) بالإنجليزية بعنوان "من مول أبواق الماركسية الغربية؟» وهو يثير نقاشاً وجدلاً واسعين في الأوساط الفكرية اليسارية. لا سيما في الولايات المتحدة وأوروبا. يشغخل المؤلف حالياً منصب أستاذ الفلسفة في جامعة فيلانوفاء والباحث المشارك في "مختبر الأنثرو…
Empty Nests This novel is structured like a matryoshka doll, with stories ranging from fairy tales to noir, hidden within others. By DUSTIN ILLINGWORTH GUILLERMO STITCH''S SOPHOMORE novel, “The Coast of Everything,” opens in the fic- tional town of Einpferd, where a bedridden young woman, Clara, prepares to set out on a mysterious journey. It seems that Einpferd is under a curse, its women no long…
Teacher''s Pet A new novel complicates an old story with questions of ambition and consent. By LAUREN CHRISTENSEN “DO YOU EVER THINK this isn''t good for you?” the renowned novelist Ezra Blazer asks his girlfriend, Alice, an aspiring writ- er 45 years his junior, in Lisa Halliday''s novel, “Asymmetry.” “On the contrary,” Al- ice replies. “I think it’s very good for me.” “I could have slapped him,”…
King Farouk was a sybarite addicted to sex and gambling Sebag Montefiore’s determination to detail the responsibility of culpable actors — Middle Eastern and foreign — in the Palestine story is key to the book’s wider approach. Evidently he sees dangers in the pro-Palestinian fundamentalism espoused by activists from the university campus to the Democratic Party caucus. But more generally, time an…
In the Dark This Italian best seller is a cinematic family drama set in the summer of 1980. By ALEXIS SCHAITKIN IN 1955 ROME, the young protagonist of Ro- berta Recchia’s debut novel, “All That Is Left of Life," finds herself jilted by her fi- ancé in spectacular fashion, after learning she’s carrying his child. “What she felt was shame for herself” Recchia writes, “for having let her naivete, her…
Mugged by Reality A historian chronicles the dubious effects of New York City’s school, housing and police reforms by local politicians on the right. By JACOB HEILBRUNN NEOCONSERVATISM MAY BE associated with the disastrous Iraq war, but it first surfaced decades earlier in response to the rise of the counterculture and the decline of American cities. The neocons — liberals mugged by reali- ty, as …
Acemoglu’s view of liberalism’s self-inflicted wounds BY JULIA R. CARTWRIGHT n June 16, 1989, a bearded 26-year-old stood before a quarter million Hungar- ians in Budapest and demanded that Soviet troops leave his country. His fear- less call for free elections helped bring down communism in Hungary. The young firebrand was Viktor Orban. Twenty-five years later, he proudly announced he was buildin…
حدَثني البرتقال فقال كتبت : غدير حميدات الزبووك في هذا المساء ثمّة شيء آخر يحدث بهدوء... شيء يشبه أن تستعيد الذاكرة صوتها، وأن تفتح الأمكنة نوافذها القديمة، وأن تأتي الحكايات من بعيد لتجلس بيننا. في حفل توقيع كتاب »حدّثني البرتقال فقال« للكاتب المبدع أحمد الصيفي، وجدتني أقف أمام كتاب لا يكتفي بأن يقرأ، وإنما يدعوك إلى أن تُصغي. كان البرتقال يتحدّث« ونحن نحاول أن ثفك شيفرات حديشه وأن نلتقط ما…
HISTORICAL FICTION / BY ALIDA BECKER World Views Stephen O''Connor, Helen Bain, Lisa See and Chantel Acevedo highlight past eras in several places. IF PSYCHOANALYSIS, “at its most basic level, might be defined as a way to help people to stop lying to themselves,” what happens when it''s practiced in a nation built on lies? That''s just one of the provoc- ative questions raised in WE WANT SO MUCH T…
Brushed Over An English historian tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story behind a sugary-sweet portrait. By LESLIE CAMHI IN THE SPRING of 1881, a black-clad man, a bit down at the heels and carrying a large bag, knocked on the door of a townhouse on Paris''s elegant Avenue Montaigne. Following his success at the Salon of 1879, Pierre-Auguste Renoir had been del- uged wit…
