We meet amid and through our acts of reading and writing each other. Together we find a place to work, and this is literature.
The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood – Belle Boggs
This review would not be welcome — but then, I’m writing a work of literary criticism, not a post to a support group, so I have different responsibilities.
Describing the Past – Ghassan Zaqtan
And I do not mean to elide that these stories are Palestinian, as is the loss they both recall and presage.
The Association of Small Bombs – Karan Mahajan
Both this novel and its readers deserve better than this easy image of terrorist as sexual brute.