The Despair of Turbines
I remember a photo of Uncle Bill beside a turbine. He said he had a wide smile on. I couldn’t …
Category Archives: Books
After the Sea Broke
After the sea broke the lighthouse went cold just when we needed it most– a white light filling with blues. …
Blue Day With Man
BLUE There is the ocean: blue, blue green, blue and more, a blue and green and blue green blue blue …
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Brian Fagan’s The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations contributes another fine book to the growing …
Red Brocade: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
A friend gave me Naomi Shihab Nye‘s wonderful 19 Varieties of Gazelle a month or so ago. I regularly use …
Götz and Meyer: A Serbian Tale of the Holocaust
David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is simultaneously a story of horror and shame, and an amazing feat of language and …
To End All Wars: Adam Hochschild
If you’ve ever stood a picket line, leafleted about an unpopular cause, been arrested for civil disobedience, fought and lost against the powerful, …
Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …
El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa
Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a phrase existed. …
You May Hold My Falcon
Visit Welcome to Abu Dhabi, the Minister of Culture said. You may hold my falcon as we visit. He slipped …
Arabic Novels from the Younger Generation
I was pleased to see strong attention in the New York Times Book Review of September 11, 2011 being paid …
Emerging Arab Voices: A Bilingual Reader
I’ve been immersing myself in translated Arabic writing these past months, from novels, to movies, to short story and poetry …