In this group, everyone was foreign, and so, in a sense, no one was.
In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the door to distraction. It invites connectivity and clicking and pu...
If differences can be hidden, perhaps they aren't differences at all.
I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.
I met her eyes, and for the first time I perceived that there was something broken behind them, like a tiny crackin a diamond that becomes visible only when viewed through a magnifying lens; normally...
I like its eyes: two black dots, nonreflective light-trappers. Utterly determined eyes, doubt-free, unselfconscious. Frightening eyes if they happen to be looking at you and you’re small enough to be...
I can understand it, she said. Imagine if you lived here. And millions of people from all over the world suddenly arrived. Millions arrived in our country, Saeed replied. When there were wars nearby....
How odd it would be to call Homer’s Iliad or Rumi’s Masnavi the Great Eastern Mediterranean Poem.
Hoarse voice, from intimacy’s border with asthma: parched beaches, dust whipped by the wind. Very sexy but not much to drink.
He whispers a benediction and breathes it into the air, spreading his hope for you with a contraction of the lungs.
He was drawn to people from their country, both in the labor camp and online. It seemed to Nadia that the farther they moved from the city of their birth, through space and through time, the more he s...
He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.
But even now the city's freewheeling virtual world stood in stark contrast to the day-to-day lives of most people, to those of young men, and especially of young women, and above all of children who w...
A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human...
And time is the stuff of which a self is made.
When it would be squarely in the path of heavy machine-gun and rocket fire as fighters advanced into this part of town: a view like staring down the barrel of a rifle. Location, location, location, th...
The calm that is called the calm before the storm, but is in reality the foundation of a human life, waiting there for us between the steps of our march to our mortality, when we are compelled to paus...
Most powerful military in the world is sent to do a task best accomplished by schoolteachers, police forces, persuasion, and time.
Exceeded only by sex.
Cooking for him is a craft of spice and oil. His food burns the tongue and clogs the arteries. When he looks around him here, he does not see prickly leaves and hairy little berries for an effervescen...