A Foundational Question Frederick Douglass’s American Founding By Dennis C. Rasmussen Princeton, 216 pages, $27.95 Until the Last Yoke Is Broken By Bradley N. Rebeiro Harvard, 360 pages, $29.95 By Davip S. REYNOLDS S THE CONSTITUTION—the original one of 1787, before the later rights-extending amendments—pro-slavery or antislavery? The question was an urgent one to Amer- icans amid the rising tensi…
GETTY IMAGES (2) | w ALL HANDS President George W. Bush with senior staff in the private dining room of the Oval Office on Sept. 11, 2001. Teammates and Rivals Insight into one of the most misunderstood administrations in recent history OLD GUARD A staffer outside the Bush White House in the days before Barack Obama took office. Inside the George W. Bush White House By Russell L. Riley Oxford, 608…
The pen — from Austens Trumps Whether yours is a Montblanc or humble Biro, they are great symbols of progress. By M FJ his year police tapes revealed the moment of bathos when Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, the serial embezzler Peter Murrell, LL was quizzed about luxury pens he had bought using SNP credit cards “Over £19,000 exclusively on pens alone” says the detective, his voice heavy with the incre…
An Exile At the Center Of Events Past and Thoughts By Alexander Herzen Harvard, 488 pages, $35 By LEON ARON SAIAH BERLIN called Alexander Herzen “a Russian Voltaire,” who astonished his 19th- century audi- ences with a “prodigal opulence of intellect.” Leo Tolstoy, notori- ously parsimonious in his praise of fellow scribblers, said that he had never met anyone with “so rare a combination of scinti…
Goodbye toold Vienna A family archive provides the basis for this vivid account of persecution, betrayal and genocide. By Luka Ivan Jukic ienna was once a city in which Jews did not have to be Jews. To be Viennese meant stepping beyond the limits of one’s identity intoa cosmopolitan world of Kultur, where raceand religion could be hidden behind aveil of refinement and achievement. It was an ideal …
Adrift in the scroll Have smartphones killed reading? Houman Barekat looks at a polemic that claims we're becoming a post-literate society ames Marriott is worried that people aren't reading. Literature undergraduates are having trouble focusing on long texts, because constant digital distraction has created a “hostile envi- ronment” for learning. As a result, the transmission of knowledge “is bre…
merican readers know the novelist Emma Cline as a prophet of women on the brinl; a gifted storyteller whose provocative fictions about power and its perversions ignite charged conversations. Since publishing The Girls, her 2016 debut about a lonely teenage girl drawn into a Manson family-esque cult, she has been anointed an It-girl novelist. Now that Cline’s third novel has been longlisted for the…
BOOKSHELF | By John J. Miller The Blade Looks Back Impatience Is a Virtue By Mitch Daniels Lyons, 600 pages, $39.95 itch Daniels was about to land his first job in Indi- ana politics. At the end of the interview, in 1971, his future boss made a crack to a colleague: “Have you checked his arrest record?” It was no joke to Mr. Daniels, then 22. “I had prepared myself for that moment,” he writes in h…
عمر أبو الهيجاء في روايته »توابيت وقبر واحد« ينتصر للجنون والمقاومة ! دعاء صفورى للعامل الزمني الذي تولد فيه الأعمال الأدبية« أخرهُ على الانطباعات التي يُخلفها في القارئ وتحيلم إلى مواجة مع ما بات شاكمًا حد التبات« من أننا نعيش في عالم مُتَحم بالذكاء! " العملية، كما أتصورها، أننا وأثناء القراءة نربط الأحداث مع ما احتفظنا به من واقعنا إلمعاش وما تكتمت عليه المخيلة فتتوالد المعاني متدفقة من مخزون مل…
سسس سسسثت" م 6ا كتناب جديد يرصد »سنوا العدد 5317 ه مستمير 2026 ت التحولات والإنجازات« قصة نجاح »سلطنة عصرية« تحت قيادة »الحاكم الرشيد« منذ أقسم السلطان هيثم بن طارق، اليمين الدستورية سلطانا لسلطنة عمان فى الحادى عشر من يناير سنة 2020م، وإلى اليوم والرجل يخطو خطوات سريعة نحو تقدم وعصرنة الحياة فى السلطنة على كل المستويات، ست سنوات فقط من حكمه كادت تنقضى لتشمد على إنجازات السلطنة فى ظل عهده، دون مبا…
