You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.
Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for it first. A fundamentalist revolution couldn’t instantly fix a national economy,...
Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn’t until Arab-Muslim armies conquered Egypt in the eighth centu...
This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.
They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the king. The
The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.
The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have tied logic in knots to advance a doctrine addressing this very same point....
The Wampanoag, in ways which are not plain to me, in concert decided upon their own observance of father’s passing. They marked it in a most singular manner. As soon as father’s loss became known to t...
Suicide and sexual diseases. Two great killers of the Viennese, from the highest born to the lowest.
Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. I wanted to show solidarity with them, but I also wanted to know exactly what their physical condition was. If
It is this notion of women’s barely controllable lust that often lies behind justifications for clito-ridectomy, seclusion and veiling.
I open the door to my cottage these evenings on a silence so thick it falls upon me like a blanket. Of all the lonely moments of my day, this is the loneliest. I confess I have sometimes been reduced...
I did note this, and set it down as yet one more of life’s injustices: that the man who has been wealthy is dunned more civilly than the fellow who has ever been poor. My creditors would come to me mo...
How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.
How easily Caleb had taken the teachings of his youth—the many gods, the animate spirit world—and simply recast them in terms of our teaching.
But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.
Being a father, having an heir, seem to add an extra dimension to David. He had always been of vivid, animating presence in any room he entered. But now he would come from visiting the boy crackling w...
And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?
The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could see that what united us was more than what divided us. That to be a human being matters more t...
When every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.