رواية الجريئة للدكتور سلطان القاسمي يرة دمحمد ؤ كعادة صاحب السمو الشيخ الدكتور سلطان بن محمد القاسمي، عضو المجلس الأعلى، حاكم الشارقة، في كتابة التاريخ من منظور توثيقي سردي، نجد بين يدينا رواية الجريئة، وهي رواية تاريخية حقيقية، تستند إلى وقائع موثقة محكماً، وتروي أحداث حياة الفرنسية الشابة »ماري بتي « المرتبة بتفاصيل البعثة الدبلوماسية الفرنسية التي أرسلت إلى فارس عام 1702م. تجمع الرواية بين ال…
Book traces aftermath of spilled family secrets JE Heidi Stevens BALANCING ACT B.K. Jackson’s mother took off when Jackson was an infant, leaving her 9-month-old daughter and 4-year-old son with an over- whelmed father and a life- long search for equilibrium. “He was a loving and nurturing father,” Jackson writes in “Relative Strang- ers,” the new anthology she edited, “but affection and attention…
The i Craig Brown 7 Review The Great Dictator Alife of Barbara Cartland by Matthew Sweet Hodder & Stoughton £25 pp496 Dressed all in pink, dripping in pearls, with candyfloss hair and eyelashes blackened each morning with Meltonian shoe cream applied with a toothbrush, Barbara Cartland ‘was the Queen Mother reimagined by Stephen King. After an early lunch she would dictate 8,000 words of romantic …
بقلم: د. عاطف سلامة ثمة أصدقاء لا يغادرون المكان حين نغادره. ولا تغيب أصواتهم حين تصمت أجسادهم. يظلون عالقين في تفاصيل صغيرة لا ينتبه إليها أحد: في كرس كان يجلس عليه. في فنجان قهوة لم يكتمل, في قصيدةٍ سمعناها منه ذات مساء؛ وفي ضحكةٍ لا تزال, رغم كل شيء؛ تعرف الطريق إلى الذاكرة. هكذا يعود إل «سليم النفار». لا آراه في صورة الشهيد وحدهاء ولا أتذكره من خلال الموت الذي اختطفه من بيننا؛ أتذكره أولَّا شا…
Seaside Rendezvous A woman must confront her traumatic past after a body washes up on the shores of her hometown. By FLYNN BERRY MY FRIEND''S GRANDMOTHER was once reading in the car, and her book scared her so much she threw it out the window onto the highway. 1 didn’t throw my copy of “Heart of Glass,” Jennifer Hillier’s terrify- ing eighth thriller, out any windows, but the book did scare me too…
Read Like the Wind / Childhood Favorites / By Sadie Stein Dear readers, One of the great pleasures of staying with my parents is revisiting all the books | loved as a child. No, “pleasure” is the wrong word: too simple and neat. Like most things, it’s complicated. When | found these two old favorites in a Safeway box marked “Sadie’s Books,” between a cardboard crate filled with baseball gloves and…
Children’s Books Gen Z Chess Fans Meet Kasparov vs. Deep Blue A new graphic novel takes kids whose phones can beat grandmasters back to a 1997 nail-biter. By JOHN SCHWARTZ IN 1997, the greatest human chess player in the world went up against the most powerful chess-playing su- percomputer. The moment felt titanic. “The future of humanity is on the line,” said Mau- rice Ashley, a grandmas- ter who …
Paper Trail A journalist at The Atlantic takes aim at bureaucratic red tape. By TIM WU IN THE EARLY 20208, the Biden administra- tion directed the LR.S. to offer free soft- ware to help people file simple tax returns. The resulting program, Direct File, was de- signed to be easy to use, to save taxpayers time and money, and, at some level, to sig- nal that interacting with government did- n''t nee…
Spirited Debate Generations of ghosts watch as their descendants discuss whether or not to sell their ancestral home. By NINA LaCOUR SHANNON SANDERS'S debut novel, “The Great Wherever,” opens with a surprise. A ghost in a Lycra dress is spilling every- thing she knows about her pretty but hap- less 32-year-old cousin, Aubrey, newly fa- therless, who went to dinner on a rainy nightin an itchy “stra…
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