_ الأد ل ماذا يفعل الغريق حين يعجز البحر عن إعادة جسده؟ فى رواية «تخلة شافع: حكايا البر والبحر للكاتبة انتصار عبد المنعم: الصادرة عن دار رواقد: لا يعود الغرقى بأجسادهم؛ بل يرسلون إلى الأحياء صدقات مبللة: تحمل رائحة البحر وآثار الرمل وبقايا حكايات لم تكتمل. ومن هذه الصدفات تب: تبتى الرواية عالمها؛ وتعيد تشكيل ذاكرة مدينة (إدكو الواقعة بين البحر والبحيرة. حيث يبدو الماء مصدرا للحياة: وطريق إلى الرزق…
Joseph Hillyard Revisiting the legacy of the Bund as an inspiration for disillusioned young Jews is old is new again,” and nowhere is that more true than in poli- tics. In keeping with this ethos comes “Here Where We Live Is Our Country,” where artist and activist Molly Crabapple employs a mix of family memoir and literary non-fiction to tell the story of the Jewish La- bor Bund, a radical Yiddish…
Irish Rover A new novel revives a 16th-century sea captain previously pushed to the margins. By S. KIRK WALSH AFTER “ODYSSEY” FEVER this summer and the ongoing discourse about shiny muscu- lar hero tales, it was a relief and a delight to plunge headfirst into the intrepid world of Grace O''Malley, the fiery protagonist at the center of Ariel Lawhon’s sixth histori- cal novel, “The Pirate Queen.” A…
“The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford” by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, “Profiles in Cowardice, A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era”by Jacob Weisberg and “The Castle” by Jon Ronson. STACEY WESCOTT/CHICAGO TRIBUNE PHOTOS Book picks for the season include award-hungry 2026 FALL ARTS novels, celebrity memoirs and romantasy elcome to the Super Bowl of Reading, a.k.a. fall, autumn, spooky…
Crime, Captivity and Class Warfare in Oluseyi Albert''s Eco-Centric Crime Thriller Yinka Olatunbosun luseyi Albert''s Flaming Ice is a slow-burning crime thriller, its suspense punctuated by romance and a succession of unsettling incidents that keep the reader guessing until the final page. Set in Onyx, a fictional African country governed by a form of aristocracy, the novel follows the unlikely r…
Living the Lie A Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar pulls apart the twisted logic of a Virginia slave owner and his descendants. By RICHARD KREITNER IN 1902, a world-weary U.S. Army captain named William Nivison Blow Jr. achieved his dream of se- curing full ownership of his fam- ily’s long-neglected plantation in southeastern Virginia. Averse to “the new order of things,” as he wrote to a cousin, he …
"يافا وزهرة الأقحوان".. رحلة فى أعماق الذات من الرمز إلى الوعى عزيزة علي زواا عمان- تتخذ الكاتبة أروى زيدان اللالا من "الحديقة الداخلية" فضاءً رمزيًا لاستكشاف أعماق الإنسان ورحلته في البحث عن ذاته، وذلك في كتابها "يافا وزهرة الأقحوان: رحلة الوعى من الرمز إلى الحياة"، الصادر عن دار الخليج للنشر والتوزيع، حيث تلتقي الحكاية بالتأمل الفلسفي والتحليل النفسي في محاولة لفهم علاقة الإنسان بمشاعره وذاكرته …
RANK HERRMANN/SUNDAY TIMES; NEW LINE CINEMA the Mountain In Search of JRR Tolkien by DI Taylor Constable £25 pp320 James McConnachie JRR Tolkien regarded biographies as “premature impertinences”, or so he told his friend WH Auden when he heard Auden might be writing one about him. For his evasiveness, reclusiveness and mischievousness, the Oxford academic and bestselling author resembles no one so…
By Mahjabeen Karim Book review: Pride and Prejudice ride and Prejudice is a famous Pranic novel written by Jane Austen and first published in 1813. The novel explores important themes such as love, marriage, family, social class, pride and misunderstanding. The story revolves around the Bennet fami- ly, who have five daughters. Mrs. Bennet is eager to see her daughters married to wealthy and suita…
