Tag: war

When We Were Twins

Novel

“History has many cunning passages and contrived corridors, wrote T.S. Eliot and Danuta Hinc takes us down several such dark alleys as she explores the human realities behind the so-called “war on Terror.” Along the way she reveals just how intricate and surprising the weave of history has become, or perhaps has always been. The threads here twine from Egypt to…

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Seven

Essays

He was caught somewhere between his mother’s last kiss and the first kiss he would give his child, between the war that was and would be. Jonathan Safran Foer During the Cold War, my mother would travel from Gdańsk, Poland, to East Berlin twice a year to shop for items that were unavailable back at home; school supplies, clothes, and…

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