How a Wall Street star fell to earth 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 th…
The world according to President Xi Mark Leonard on how ost things that happen in poly , our lifetime will be for- China's epicrise 1s changing 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 the global order — but not in the way the west expected is scrambling the world economy, trans- forming te…
Denmark's women on the edge Compelling fiction by Dorthe Nors and Helle Helle explores solitude, regret and lives not led, writes Matthew Janney wo recently translated Danish novels probe the distances between loneli- ness and connection, through two solitary female protagonists. In Helle Helles Hafni Says, a woman on the verge of divorce sets out on a road trip, or as she describes it a “smorrebr…
T have a slight sense of foreboding’ Sebastian Faulks is back with the story of a British soldier sent to febrile Palestine in 1947. By John Self s a novelist Sebastian Faulks is best known for widescreen historical epics — Birdsong, ‘Human Traces — but there’ a playful element to him too. He has written a Jeeves and Wooster novel, has appeared on stage in an adaptation of Birdsong and even plays …
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 gre Spear 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 from parliament in 2015, not wri…
Keeping it in the family L GENRE ROUND-UP DON LTE 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, altho…
حين يخرج "صمت الغياب" من الكتاب إلى فضاء النقد في ديوان (صمت الغياب) للأديبة د. وفاء داري: ذاكرة للكان؛ افكار متجددة وموهبة متأصلة... ما الذي يجعل ديوانا شعريا يتجاوز لحظة صدوره: ليجد طريقه إلى فضاء النقد والقراءة والاحتفاء؟ لعل الإجابة تبدأ حين تصبح القصيدة قادرة على أن تستدعي قارا من خارج تجربتها ء فيقرأها بعين مختلفة, ويكتشف فيها ما لم تقله مباشرة. وفي سياق هذا الحضور يأني اختيار ديوان (صمت الغ…
Culture war How Ukraine has used language, art and resistance against Russian cultural hegemony. By John Reed sart a necessity or a luxury at times of war? If so, what should it be about? And is art worth risking your life for? These are just some of the questions Charlotte Higgins grapples with in Ukrainian Lessons, a first-hand account of how writers, art- ists and other stewards of Ukrainian cu…
MASTERPIECE | ‘ALL THE NAMES’ (1997), BY JOSE SARAMAGO An Ambiguous Story of a Dogged Search By Ava RAHMAN JOSE SARAMAGO (1922-2010) is recognized for his tales that veer toward the fantastic: the Iberian Peninsula floating away from Eu- rope, a city in which its inhabitants are struck blind, a poet’s pseudo- nym coming to life. His most cele- brated works encompass an array of ambitious themes. B…
"حين ينام العالم" لفرانشيسكا البائيزى.. عشر حكايات لفهم فلسطين وكالات- لم يقتصر حضور فرانشيسكا البانيزي. خلال السنوات الأخيرة. على عملها بصفتها المقررة الخاصة للأمم المتحدة المعنية بحقوق الإنسان فى الأراضى الفلسطينية المحتلة. إذ يقدم كتابها "حين ينام العالم: حكايات وكلمات وجراح فلسطين" (الصادر بترجمة غريغوري كونتي عن الإيطالية : الولايات المتحدة في 28 ئيسان 2026 ). جائبا سرديا من تجربتها في البحث …
