Nov, 12 2020 | no responses
If ten men stand by, the crime they witness must be multiplied by a hundred, because if they don’t stop each other, who will ever stop them?
Fiction
Oct, 22 2020 | no responses
Saba and Hagos, a young girl and her mute older brother have been displaced from Eritrea during the country’s long War of Independence.
Side by Side but Never Face to Face
Oct, 19 2020 | no responses
The idea of acceptance, riddled with reluctant connotation, sometimes betrays itself.
Oct, 06 2020 | no responses
Wexelblatt’s Hsi-wei Tales is a wonderful fusion of poetry and prose that captivates and holds nuggets of wisdom far beyond the fortune cookie kind.
Jul, 13 2020 | no responses
However, this slim, powerful volume presents a world so viscerally haunting, readers are likely to pick up both. In each, Koesters balances the music (and often the humor) of her characters’ voices with unflinching portrayals of sexual abuse, religion, stratifications of class and race, and the cultural reverberations of cyclical, endemic violence.
Jul, 09 2020 | no responses
Early in the novella, Rytkheu writes that a “legend could be said to be a truth that people had ceased to believe in.” The story is riddled with similarly potent lines, all of which can be independently pondered and applied to religious and philosophical conundrums that exist outside of Rytkheu’s story.