July 2026
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To Remain
Raja Shehadeh on Living through Destruction in Palestine
I have been thinking that people all over the world these days are feeling a sense of despair because, like me, they are seeing the destruction of the world as they knew it. But it has occurred to me that the real destruction of my world happened in 1948, when the Palestinians lost Palestine.
The Open Marketplace of the End Times
Today I remembered the last time I looked out the window. This was months ago. Was I braver then—or more childlike? No, not childlike, as children do not look out their windows either. More naive. More stupidly hopeful.
Fragments from a Pilgrimage
I came to plunder the past and found, appropriately, only a bit of play history. What did I expect?
Hoddernot
We posted pictures of ourselves in uniform, desperate to benefit from serving in a war many of us didn’t understand, desperate for a connection and for someone to acknowledge us and, ultimately, acknowledge that a war was going on, that it was real.
Distractions
Reading at work, listening to music during labor, swatting gnats while meditating
