In June, as I was reading Tareq Baconi’s memoir , Israel launched a series of surprise attacks on Iran. Though I was born in the United States, I have people in Iran, as well as a good many memories.

When Kiran Desai was promoting her 2006 Booker-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss on a French news channel, she admitted that she was working on a book about ...

Desperate times call for urgent solutions as disturbing data illuminates the crisis of boys dropping out of high schools in South Africa. We must harness the collective power of educators, families, ...

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