Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And
It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the heads of the people who made the book. I can figure out who they were, or how...
I thought it best to add nothing further, to let the line of his thought lead him to his own conclusions.
I think the seeds of my love were planted there, in the ground that my father’s madness harrowed.
I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin so that the moonlight shone on her wet face. We married each other that night, there...
I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.
A short distance away, just outside the town of Harvard, Bronson Alcott’s Fruitlands dream lives on in a way he could not have imagined, as an intriguing museum and a place of exceptional beauty.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.
If her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam. It
What he says may be true for English, but why should I want to go into this God’s house if only English are there? If God wanted us in this house than he would have sent our ancestors such a book.
West Bank women’s groups argued that the time wasn’t right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before questions of women’s rights could be raised. The
Well, you must rest, later. You need to be refreshed to greet the Bride Shabbat. She smiled. For a husband and wife to make love on the Sabbath was a commandment, and it was one requirement of the fai...
To take a people who were traveling apace the broadway to hell, and to be able to turn them, and set their face to God. . . . It is what we must strive for.
To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow fail to do the job.
This was no coincidence. The best short stories and the most successful jokes have a lot in common. Each form relies on suggestion and economy. Characters have to be drawn in a few deft strokes. There...
This is the cathedral. Neo-Gothic. They had midnight Mass there last Christmas, but they held it at noon because, of course, no one went out at night at that time unless they were suicidal. On its lef...
They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.
The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of character, without opinion. In
The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward: I hope I never see it in my lifetime, he said.