Bravo! A century of theatre, from Coward This history of the proscenium arch is fiery, incisive and tremendous fun. By Benedict Nightingale ~~ ne evening Noél Coward was ( \ cating alone in Sardi’ when } he spotted Kenneth \ J who had just trashed him in The New Yorker. They avoided each others eyes, until Coward went up to the critic table and broke the silence. “Mr Tynan.” he said, “you are a c+…
i 2 i El 0 I | i Police respond to the mass shooting in Las Vegas on October 12017 — os pecie First Leith, now Las Vegas Irvine Welsh's well-rounded cast spin a tale of violence and generational conflict against the backdrop of Trump's presidency, writes Peter Hoskin rvine Welsh is famously Scottish. But is he, by now, quite American too? After all, it has been about 17 years since the Trainspotti…
For, against and both at the same time The people of Russia speak for themselves in an extraordinary on-the-ground account of how it really feels to live in Putin’s world of contradiction and doublethink. By Matthew Janney Never Say War: Life Inside Russia by Asne Seierstad, translated by Sién Mackie Virago £30,512 pages he best soldier is one nobody will miss.” Linger on that sentence for a momen…
Harder times Claudia Rankine’s hybrid of poetry, fiction and memoir asks us to consider what kind of world we want to live in. By Max Liu he Jamaican-American poet and playwright Claudia Rankine is best known for Citizen (2014), her prize- winning work of prose poetry about Black experience in the US. As the middle part of her American Lyrictrilogy, which began with Don’t Let Me Be Lonely (2004) a…
NBC/GETTY IMAGES Days of Miracle and Wonder By Ashley Kahn Atria, 320 pages, $30 By Davip Kirsy T''S 1984 AND Paul Simon is ready for a change. His previous album, “Hearts and Bones” (1983), has not lived up to his label’s expectations. He’s been shut- tling between Manhattan and Montauk, N.Y., on Long Island, where he’s building a beach house he intended to share with his sec- ond wife, Carrie Fi…
A Revolutionary Investigation CHILDREN’S BOOKS Katie DANIELS When a girl finds a cryptic letter from 1780, she works to uncover its secrets. INTRIGUE AND espionage abound in “Thunder and Mercy” (Calkins Creek, 368 pages, $18.99), a gripping historical novel by Jennifer Robin Barr set in 1970s Philadelphia. Theodora “Thunder” Underwood is an 11- year-old who spends her free time searching for long-…
موسى كريدي .. صخب السرد الذ ي ل يهد أ تجربة قاص عراقي صوته مختلف ومجلجل تستعيد الدراسات النقدية بين الحين والآخر أسماء إبداعية تركت أثرا واضحا في مسيرة الأدب العراقي. لكنها لم تنل دائما ما تستحقه من قراءة وتأمل. ومن بين هذه الأسماء يبرز القاص والروائى موسى كريدي (1996-1940). الذي امتلك تجربة سردية خاصة. اتسمت بالتجريب والقلق والمر جعة المستمرة وظل صوته القصصى مختلفا عن السائد حاملا رؤيته الخاصة لل…
Has football reached peak Pep? His system of coaching changed the beautiful game. But a new study portrays him as a pilferer of ideas as much as a philosopher. writes Jonathan Derbyshire The Spectre of Pep: How Guardiola Haunts Modern Football Tactics by Jon Mackenzie Seven Dials £25 416 pages spectre haunted this sum- mer's World Cup — the spectre of Pep Guardiola. The Catalan coach, who left Man…
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Books storyteller named Aesop spun fable after fable fea- turing foxes and lions, tor- toises and mice in Greece around the sixth century BC; in ancient India, Pandit Vishnu Sharma smuggled lessons on statecraft and political guile into the urbane tales of the Panchatantra, starring jackals and crocodiles, elephants and crows. This yearning among writers to expe- rience our world through the gaze …
