A one-way ticket to Zurich This magnificent novel about a dying man is Ivan Ilyich for the Dignitas era itzy by Emma Cline “hatto & Windus £18.99 p Johanna Thomas-Corr Were there early signs that Emma Cline would write a defining novel about assisted dying — The Death of Ivan Ilyich of the Dignitas era? When the American novelist’s debut, The Girls, arrived in 2016 when she was 28, along with a ru…
HISTORICAL FICTION / BY ALIDA BECKER Hardships and Heroines Go back in time with Jason Stone, Tracy Borman, Brinda Charry and Catherine Cliff. DON''T BE FOOLED by the title of Stone''s prodigiously researched debut, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY (Atlantic Monthly Press, 480 pp., $28). Although it celebrates the grandeur of the West Texas land- scape, with its “oceans of tall grass prairies, infin…
عاطف محمد عبد المجيد د ي جاليات التلقى من الموضوعات الأساسية التى بحثها علم الجمال المعاصر وتبيع أهميتها من اعتبارها دخولا فى عمق الفن من جهة وظيفته وتأثيره الجمالى: وانطلاقا من أهمية دور المتلقى فى إتمام العملية الفنية بالتواصل مع عمل الفتان حيث تكتمل من خلا له رسالة الفن التى ينبغى ان تساهم فى ارتقاء حسه ومشاعره وذوقه؛ ومن ثم وعيه المعرفى والجمالى. هذا ما كتبته د آيات ريان ضى كتابها جماليات التل…
HEN KNIGHT FORTHE TI Susie Goldsbrough t was down by the boathouse where Agatha Christie once deposited a corpse that the crime writer Lucy Foley encountered the ghost of Britain''s most treasured whodunnit-monger. Foley, who had just finished writing the first official Miss Marple continuation novel, was visiting Greenway, the lovely whitewashed Georgian house perched above the River Dart in Devo…
Cosplay King A journalist finds metaphor and meaning in the story of one man’s baronial fantasia and others who are living unmoored from reality. By ALEXANDRA JACOBS IN “THE STEPFORD WIVES,” the 1975 movie based on Ira Levin's novel, former wom- en’s libbers glide vacantly through super- market aisles after being transformed by their husbands into robots. In the journal- ist Jon Ronson’s new book,…
* حمزة عليوي شاءت الصدفة. ربماء أن أتوقف عن إكمال قراءة كتاب شارع دجلة: سيرة ناقصة في حدث عاصف: الشؤون الثقافية. بغداد. 2023 لأسباب لا تتصل بالكتاب ذاته. ولا بالعنوان الفرعي الذي تأمله وأنا أقرأ مقدمته: سيرة القصة . وكأني كنت على انتظار أن تكتمل السيرة بكتاب أو جزء ثان يصدر لاحقا ء ووجدت نفسي أنسى الكتاب. حتى وجدته بين الكتب لمناسبة حصولي على نسخة من كتاب كيطان السيري الثاني: البجع المذبوح, حكايات…
Paperback Row / by LAURA THOMPSON TRIP, by Amie Barrodale. (Picador. 304 pp. $18.) TRIP g aN A woman unexpect- edly dies while at- A NAVEL tending a conference about death. Mean- oe while, her teenage @ AMIE son has run away BAPPODALE from his treatment a —m center and is barrel- ing straight toward a (literal) hurricane. Despite the absurdities of the characters’ predicaments — the afterlife and …
Profile / Alison Espach / By Elisabeth Egan Two years and 500,000 hardcover sales later, the author's novel just came out in paperback. Its a book she didn't want to write. MIDWAY THROUGH WRITING her second novel, “Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance,” an idea for a third book arrived in Alison Espach’s head like an uninvited guest. She pictured a woman walking into a fancy hotel in Rhode Island. E…
