Arch of Marcus Aurelius, Tripoli. Photo by Neil Weightman.“Whoever is uprooted, uproots others.” Simone Weil’s wise words to Charles de Gaulle, future president of France, in 1943, with France still u…
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November 30, 2015
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Jeffrey Round is an award-winning Toronto author, playwright, songwriter, and filmmaker. His books include the seven-volume Lambda-winning Dan Sharp…
Akiyuki Nosaka / Wikipedia
Akiyuki Nosaka’s (1930–2015) semi-autobiographical short story “Hotaru No Haka” (Grave of the Fireflies) is a…
Noam Chomsky / Photo by Sam Usner / Haymarket Books
While A Livable Future Is Possible (Haymarket Books, 2024 / Penguin Books,…
Carlie Hoffman
I have never been able to hear music in my voice so much as I have in reading the lyrical wonder of One More World…
The title of Xiaolu Guo’s new novel, Call Me Ishmaelle (Chatto & Windus, 2025), instantly reminds us of the famous opening of…
