Francis Fukuyama The “Last Man”, still standing In the Realm of the Last Man. By Francis Fukuyama. Farrar, Straus a Giroux; 304 pages; $29. Profile; £20 W JHEN FRANCIS FUKUYAMA 40-year-old political scient lished “The End of History and Man” in 1992, the book was met claim. With the collapse of the So ion and end of the cold war, the w reached “the end point of mankin logical evolution” with “the …
All about his mother Magdalena Miecznicka on a remarkable story of one woman's rise from Russian refugee to the summit of French high society Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrére, translated by John Lambert Fern Press £20/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux $33, 416 pages n 1958, when the then 28-year-old Héléne Carrére d ’Encausse was fly- ing back to France from Uzbekistan, the Afghan pilot of the plane landed un…
All about his mother Magdalena Miecznicka on a remarkable story of one woman's rise from Russian refugee to the summit of French high society Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrére, translated by John Lambert Fern Press £20/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux $33, 416 pages 11958, when the then 28-year-old Héléne Carrere d’Encausse was fly- ing back to France from Uzbekistan, the Afghan pilot of the plane landed unex…
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ours after Donald Trump announced his so-called “Muslim ban” in 2017, Brad Karp dispatched dozens of lawyers from his elite New York firm to airports, where they worked through the night to file emergency peti tionson behalfof stranded travellers. Lessthan a decade later, the Paul Weiss chief was on his metaphorical knees in the Oval Office, inking a dubious deal to do free work for the Trump admi…
محمد تركي الربيعو « عندما اندفع مئات آَلاف السوريين إلى خارج البلاد بعد عام 2011، بدا المشهد لكثيرين وكأنه لحظة استثنائية في التاريخ السوري. عائلات تتوزع بين مدن ودول، شباب يسبقون أهلهم بحثا عن طريق آمن، نساء يسافرن وحدهن أو مع أطفالهن، وأقارب يتحولون إلى شبكة تساعد على الوصول والسكن والعمل. ومع مرور السنوات، أصبحت الهجرة جزءا من الحياة الاجتماعية السورية نفسها، بحيث يصعب الحديث عن الأسرة السورية …
Lost in Taiwan Rebecca F Kuang explores her Chinese-American identity in a somewhat insular novel, finds Christian House ew books have captured the febrile publishing debate sur- rounding authenticity quite as dynamically as Rebecca F Kuang’s 2023 satirical novel Yellowface. In it, a white writer steals the manuscript of her friend, a Chinese- American author who has died in extraordinary circumst…
A plea for peace Sebastian Faulks deftly mixes the trauma of war with his penchant for a murder mystery. By Philip Womack ebastian Faulks’ ambitious latest bool, Farewell to Eden, is something of a hybrid. It con- cerns, on the one hand, faith, history and the harrowing aftermath of the second world war; on the other, there is an entertaining mur- der mystery folded into the plot. This is in keepi…
The tragic life of Puyi, Chinas lastemperor ~~ A compelling biography explores the story of a child monarch who saw the collapse of a dynasty and the disappearance of the world he was born to rule. By Charles Clover he life of China's last emperor embodies the country’s extraordinary rupture with its imperial past. Puyi, born in 1906, grew up in the confines of the Forbidden City. He was worshippe…
History for the ambitious The right way to learn from Genghis Khan ‘What biography and natural experiments reveal about leadership Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings. By Jared Diamond. Mariner Books; 288 pages; $32. Allen Lane; £25 TT CONQUER SO much of Eurasia so quickly, Genghis Khan must have been a pretty decisive chap. Today macho excc- utives striving to build empires sometimes wish he had…
