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…
The world according to President Xi ost things that happen in our lifetime will be for- gotten long before we are dead. But one story is bound to be remem- bered: China's rise from sleepy giant to global superpower. Beijing’s epic ascent Mark Leonard on how Chinas epic rise is changing the global order — but not in the way the west expected is scrambling the world economy, trans- forming technolog…
اللخبار 6 السبت 12 ايلوك 2026 العحد 5873 يتناول كتاب »الفرار من الفتنة« ثدار مدارات( للمؤرخ المصري أحمد محمو د إبراهيم سيرة الصحابي عبد الله بن عصر، مستعرضاَ تحولات السلطة من الشورى إلى الملك. بمقاربة منهجية تفكيكية، يغوص العمل في تعقيدات مواقفه بين الورع والحياد السياسي، مقدّماَ دراسة رصينة تحرر التاريخ من القراءات السطحية والاستقطاب المعاصر عبد الله بن عمر... شاهد استثناني على الفتنة الكبرى عبدا…
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…
The Butterfly Season By Lea Korsgaard Knopf, 320 pages, $32 By Danny HEITMAN EVERAL YEARS AGO, the Danish journalist Lea Korsgaard decided she’d try to see all 64 native but- terfly species in Denmark within a single year. It was an unlikely proj- ect for a busy news executive, wife and mother who knew little about butterflies, and Ms. Korsgaard wasn’t initially sure why she’d assigned herself the…
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 Starts With Us by Gordon Brown Simon & Schuster £25, 416 pages inston Churchill once quipped that history would be kind to him, for he intended to write it himself. Gordon Brown has, since his retirement from parliament in 2015, not written histo…
Coltrane Edited by Ravi Coltrane Ten Speed, 288 pages, $60 By GERALD EARLY N 1957 Miles Davis fired his saxophonist, a rambling, uncon- cise and anxious player of poorly finished solos whose drug addiction was interfering with his performance. A year later, after a stint with Thelonious Monk''s pioneering group, the saxophonist returned to Davis’s quintet and eventu- ally played, with great credit…
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 — tenac…
