Viet Thanh Nguyen serves as editor for a short but impactful collection of essays about refugees and the refugee experience. I read a lot about immigration. I'm not entirely unaware that many of these stories are actually about refugees, but it's interesting that people often morph themselves into "...
Death and the Maiden is a theme that is constantly used in sculpture. Here the meaning is transformed. The maiden isn’t exactly a maid, and she might, in fact, be death. The plot concerns a woman who is convinced that a man is the criminal who tortured, the man in question, and the woman’s husban...
It's the summer of 2001 in New York City. Sixteen-year-old Heller works for Soft Tidings, a messenger service whose employees visit the recipient of each message and tell them the news in person, rather than just delivering a note. Soft Tiding's motto is "news with a personal touch". Heller drives h...
”Context is ninety percent of verisimilitude. What I mean is that when our good uncle opened that letter from Paris, signed by Franz, full of details about life here, it never crossed his mind that it could have been written by someone else. Context—and, naturally, ingenuousness. People believe wha...
This little book is a must read. More people in the United States, who likely have no idea of the atrocious treatment the "enemy combatants" get in Guantanamo, should read this. The poetry varies in its themes. There are some militant poems, and there are poems that simply present the poet's yearnin...
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