The WildernessA deeply felt chronicle into the wilderness of the first forty days of new motherhood. In the final weeks of her pregnancy, Ayegl Sava becomes fascinated by the mythology around the first forty days after giving birth, and the invisible beings that are said to surround the mother. In Turkish, we speak of extracting the forty days, like a sort of exorcism. My grandmothers assure me that it will all get better after forty days are out. A friend lends a

each corresponding to a separate chapter of this innovative poetic novel

Tracing Vienna’s rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics

including the sexual love

and dialogue in a life devoted to books

The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships

North and South

” — San Francisco Examiner

the wide-ranging pieces in this collection include Didion writing about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting

allowing a form of motherhood to exist in these pages unbounded

to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory

And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008)

spoke about art with unparalleled candour and commitment