A real-life thriller traces the rise of private capital through the story of financier Leon Black — and the Epstein scandal that sunk him. By Patrick Jenkins eon Black was in his second year at Harvard Business School when his famous father threw himself out of his — office window.” So begins an early chapter of William D Cohan’s latest ‘Wall Street non-fiction thriller, Money to Burn, the epic ta…
Books hough he is never directly mentioned, the spirit of Donald Trump stalks the contemporary dystopia of Emily St John Mandel’s new novel. The woman who gave us the defining pandemic novel just five years before Covid has set a similar timeframe for her drastic vision of America (and indeed the wider world). Exit Party isa sweeping saga of parallel universes, lost possibilities and collapsing go…
A Writer’s Wide Reputation After Oscar By Merlin Holland Europa, 704 pages, $34 The Weight of Angels By John Boyne Holt, 592 pages, $30.99 By D.J. TavLoR T IS POSSIBLE that more non- sense has been written about Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) than any other Western writer, liv- ing or dead, with the exception of William Shakespeare. Charlatans and fantasists attached themselves to Wilde’s memory like iro…
الاستشراق الفرنسي والتنصير هذا العنوان: "الاستشراق الفرنسي والتنصير"، هو في حقيقة أمره أحد عناوين فصول كتابي: "الاستشراق الفرنسي وتعدد مهامه خاصة في الجزائر"، وهو الفصل الثاني من الكتاب، وهو أحد فصول الكتاب الأربعة. والحديث عن العلاقة بين الاستشراق والتنصير ليس حديث عهد، وليس في الجزائر فقط، لكن حالته في الجزائر كانت تمثل الوجه الآخر لعملة الجزائر الفرنسية. وقد سبق أن تحدثنا على علاقة الاستشراق با…
Rereading Winter''s Bone by Daniel Woodrell A tough teen scours the lawless Ozarks for her dad in this nerve- jangling ‘country noir’. By Robbie Millen ee Dolly is a teenage heroine who makes hard-riding, gun- toting Mattie Ross of True Grit look like a snowflake. Ree is 16 and knows how to swing a wood-chopping axe. She has to. No one else is going to help her. Her shiftless father has disappeare…
Purpose without the reckoning Former PM Gordon Brown is strong on data and vision but neglects his own free-market policies, says Stephen Bush The Future the Starts With Us future by Gordon Brown + + Simon & Schuster starts £25,416 pages with us GORDON BROWN inston Churchill once quipped that history would be kind to him, for he intended to write it himself. Gordon Brown has, since his retirement …
Blood Dawn By Hans van de Ven Basic, 464 pages, $35 By Tom NAGORSKI HAT WAS World War II about? It sounds like a trick question with an obvious answer: It was waged to defeat the forces of fascism. And what followed the Allied vic- tory? Almost as obvious: The war’s end led to a rebuilding of battered nations and an era of unparalleled prosperity. To all of which the historian Hans van de Ven migh…
have no private papers. I shall leave no trace. That's the ideal.” True to her word, the brilliant art historian and Booker Prize-winning novelist Anita Brookner, who died in 2016 at the age of 87, is the ultimate biographi- cal test. But Hermione Lee, one of our best literary biographers, has risen to the challenge. The result is a biography that proves this most recalcitrant of subjects — tenaci…
Keeping itin the family L&D ONIN D RI [JIU By Suzi Feay amilies mould us, cage us, define us and (if we're lucky) free us. There's no better framework for a novel. In And 1 Am the Arrow by Pia Ghosh- Roy (The Indigo Press £12.99) even death can’t break the familial bond. Three generations of women live in an art deco-style mansion in Calcutta that is clinging on to traces of grandeur, although the…
