Maugham paints life at turn of century

28/07/2008

IT IS easy to identify with the characters in Somerset Maugham's Far Eastern Tales (Vintage Classics, paperback), a...

If faith is sincere, behaviour is righteous

26/07/2008

A PROPHETIC narration states: "Whoever marries has achieved one half of the Religion. Thereafter let him be...

22/06/2008

THE Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz, who died in 2006, was Egypt's Balzac. In his 33 novels, including his...

12/06/2008

LOVE him or hate him, Robert Kagan does big-picture thinking about foreign affairs in a way that eludes his few British...

04/06/2008

THERE is no dearth of books on the Model T Ford, but its centennial celebration is reason enough for another. While...

27/05/2008

IN THE early 1990s, lacking direction after a breakup with a girlfriend, Shannon Burke left New Orleans, moved to New...

26/05/2008

AFTER the abuse of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib was exposed in April 2004 by The New Yorker and 60 Minutes, the Bush...

12/05/2008

ADAPTED from the Indian-born Oxford-based Dr Mohammad Akram Nadwi's introductory volume to his forthcoming 40-tome...

11/05/2008

IN 1987, in his book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, the Yale historian Paul Kennedy saw the United States on...

06/05/2008

ANY TIME one reads something on Saudi Arabia there is looming curiosity about the life and person of Prince Alwaleed...