The LordIn this stunning portrait of Palestinian life before the Nakba, a young man gains renown as a magician of a revolutionary sortmeanwhile evading the British colonialist forces who seek to destroy him and the resistance he represents. A reporter posted to Lebanon in the early 1980s, covering the Israeli invasion of the time, encounters Miss Alice, an English missionary who is nearing the end of a long life in the region. With memories that go back to

and herself

Lynne Tillman has devoted her life to using language as a tool to synthesize the chaos of our world into intricate

"adrienne marie brown is back

completely sabotaging his narrative

nostalgia with innovation

A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing

She received me with perplexing indifference and then left the room

scathing essay “Men Explain Things to Me

juxtaposing tableaus of country poverty against scenes of bare brutality

to Sri Lanka in the south

And that has made him a hero to generations of readers who see laid bare

Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation