A cache of family documents led a journalist to discover the source of the wealth that allowed his family to remake life in ...

Weight by weight, apparently, Edward FitzGerald’s ‘rendering’ – as he put it – of the quatrains of Omar ... up to Khayyam around 1950, in my earliest years at school in Kurdish Western Iran, when I ...

In 1902, when he was fourteen, T S Eliot came upon a copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Edward FitzGerald’s translation ... Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau among others. (His book ...

I’m Meg. I write “shut up and read,” a book newsletter. I’m also on BookTok. This week, we speak with Egyptian Canadian journalist-turned-author Omar El Akkad, whose memoir-manifesto ...

Brandon Gill saying he wants her deported, Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar said: "These people are just idiots." "I am at the point where it has become really hard to have an intellectual ...

Was there relief in writing this book, and getting to talk directly about this thing everyone is pretending isn’t happening? OMAR EL AKKAD: I don’t know that I’ve felt anything like relief ...

It is a powerful and deeply disturbing book. With his core message – to ignore inhumanity is to corrode the soul – El Akkad demands that his readers look with him at the horror. And he asks ...

TORONTO - In some ways, Omar El Akkad’s “One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” is a time capsule. It is at once a contemporaneous account of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza as ...

Kid Rock pulled no punches as he ripped into Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Ilhan Omar for stunts on Capitol Hill, instructing the latter to “put a basket” on her head and “go back to where she came ...

Omar Wilson, 32, was convicted of the murder of Mussie Imnetu at the Old Bailey after punching and kicking him during an altercation. Wilson claimed he acted in self-defence. CCTV showed him ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

On October 25, 2023, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet ... of this rupture are just beginning. This book is for all the people who want something ...