Help! My dad’s about to marry a Black Widow THRILLERS John Dugdale Claws Out! by Bella Mackie Borough £20 pp352 Bella Mackie’s third novel chronicles a cut-throat struggle between two formidable women over a man and a house in affluent north London: Diana, a charity founder and serial widow who is poised to marry David, an eminent shrink and author; and David’s entitled live-in daughter, Catriona,…
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Roving Eye / Journey to Nowhere, by Shiva Naipaul / By Anderson Tepper In this reissue from 1980, Shiva Naipaul reports on the aftermath of the Jonestown massacre. Shiva Naipaul, while lesser known than his older brother, V.S., published a small but vital body of work. I THINK I DISCOVERED the two Naipauls — V.S. and his younger brother, Shiva— around the same time, in college in the mid-1980s. Bu…
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The Fraught Bond Rachel Aviv's new essay collection shows the breadth and complexity of matrilineal relationships. By MELANIE THERNSTROM EVEN AS A nonfiction writer, I find myself nagged by the question of whether nonfic- tion can ever really capture inner life — the shifting, invisible eddies of feeling that shape our experience — as deeply as fic- tion can. Is it only literature that ailows us t…
The Hypnotists Love Story, by Liane Moriarty Fiction, 2011 A more conventional beach read, certainly, but if you see Moriarty’s name and think “Big Little Lies,” think again — or, at any rate, add a dash of “Baby Reindeer” Ellen O''Farrell is an optimistic hyp- notherapist who meets a wid- owed, single dad named Patrick on a dating app. He''s great — but, as she soon learns, there''s a catch: Patr…
LEONARDO CENDAMO/GETTY IMAGES ® ® ® Hiding in Istanbul A private eye hunts the daughter of a rich American who has ‘gone revolutionary’ Children of Wolves by Lawrence Osborne Chatto & Windus £18.99 pp272 John Self Lawrence Osborne is proof of the value of staying the course; it was only with his ninth book — and third novel — The Forgiven that he gained a wide readership. That book, the tense tale…
Remembered and reminisced - Lahore through the eyes of Janus: a book review By Saira Rauf, Sumaira Rauf significant contribution to the present pool of Pakistani English poetry, which allows the reader to recall memory, love, history, identity and the changing face of Lahore. The anthology is Imtiaz''s promising poetic voice, a valid testament to his emotional maturity and intellectual depth.The p…
مسؤولية المثقف أمام الحقيقة عند باسكال بونيقاس د. مي عبدالكريم محمود ولِدَ كتاب »المنقففون المزورون« من غضب طالما حُسأبه مؤلفه باسكال بونيقاس عندما كان يرى شخصيات عُرفت بانشغالاتها الفكرية وهي تصرح في النقاشات العامة، بأفكار مزيفة ومجانبة للحقيقة دون اعتراض من احد و يمرّ كذبها مر الكرام. والحديث هناعن الكذب المقصود وليس عن أخطاء عابرة. ففي حين ينتظر الجمهور توضيحا للأمور، تتعمد هذه الشخصيات تضليله…
