More and more now I recoil from seeing troubling things. Because once seen, they stick in the mind’s eye and often they are shocking or sad and there’s nothing one can do about them. Often, it is the sight of accident victims or the victims of violence. Or even day-to-day things one could just dismiss...
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October 28, 2025February 19, 2026Opinion
Postscript to the Frankfurt Book Fair with my friends Jose Rizal, Edward Said and Adania Shibli
To be clear, I was not at the Frankfurt Book Fair. But in the past few months, I’ve been holding a book fair of sorts on my own after coming to terms with my being a polygamous reader. I seem to think that just because I am unable to read one book at a time,...

