Tuning in to trauma Pirate radio offers solace for a troubled young Londoner in Jacqueline Crooks’ follow-up to ‘Fire Rush’. By John Self amaica-born British writer Jacqueline Crooks’s impressive debut novel Fire Rush (2023) was two books in one. It was an energising account of the Lon- don dub music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s — of the “arrhythmic electricity” of the body infused by m…
By Zahid Dilwash Book Review: The People Are the Mountains he People Are the Mountains TT rent nas or Scr Cabral, an exceptional leader who worked for the liberation of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonial rule during the 1960s and 1970s. The title suggests that ordinary people can be as strong, dependable and powerful as mountains. The book can therefore be viewed as a guide to u…
aron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most influential contemporary analyst of the links among economics, technology and politics. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize in eco- nomics for his path-breaking work on political economy, together with two of his co-authors, James A Robinson of the University of Chicago and Simon Johnson of MIT. Acemoglu’s most recent book is timel…
aron Acemoglu of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the most influential contemporary analyst of the links among economics, technology and politics. In 2024, he won the Nobel Prize in eco- nomics for his path-breaking work on political economy, together with two of his co-authors, James A Robinson of the University of Chicago and Simon Johnson of MIT. Acemoglu’s most recent book is timel…
Police respond to the mass shooting in Las Vegas on October 12017 — cui: 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 Trainspotting author and one-tim…
عبد اللطيف الوراري « حيوية النصض.. سيرورة النقد منذ نهايات التسعينيات ومرورا بسنوات الألفية الجديدة، لا يمكن للمتتبع أن يخطئ أن ثمَة حيويّة تطبع الإنتاج الروائي المغربي كمّيا وكيفيًا. فمن جهة أولى، صدرت مئات العناوين الروائية بلغاتٍ مختلفة، وإن كان أكثرها نسبة وأدعاها للنظر ما كيب باللغة العربية تحديدا، لأسباب تاريخية وسوسبيوثقافية صرف. ومن جهة أخرىً، قياسا إلى تعدّد المساهمين في الإنتاج الروائي و…
ow shall we distinguish that Hs is good in pleasure from that which is not 20002" This question is among the many profound ideas explored in The Prophet, a celebrated work by Lebanese-American writer, poet and artist Khalil Gibran. Khalil Gibran was bom in 1883 in Lebanon. He wrote extensively about life, love, freedom and human nature. The Prophet. published in 1923, became his most famous work a…
A8 EZ RE THE WASHINGTON POST :- SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2026 BOOK EXCERPT My encounter with Carlos the Jackal, the world’s first celebrity terrorist BY JOBY WARRICK Vienna, Austria: Dec. 21,1975 he terrorists’ plan was to ar- rive at their target by streetcar. Stealth was key, and the clang- ing, beetred tram lurching slowly over icy tracks offered a kind of anonymity, a way for six heavily armed ass…
16 saturday review Saturday August 15 2026 | THE TIMES books I Move over, K-pop — Its K-{1ction Korea in the shadow of war. Plus, Val McDermid’s new act. By Antonia Senior Song for Another Home by Bora Lee Reed Serpent''s Tail £14.99 pp320 It is 1950 and a Korean family have been torn apart by war. Oksoon and her mother and brother, who live in Pyongyang, decide to leave and find her father, who t…
Has football re ached 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 M…
