This excerpt is published with permission from Roast Books. The Profit is inspired by an oft-quoted work by Kahlil Gibran and concerns the erudition and sagacity of one Piers Black, "revered by men...
Please note that the full version of this particular column is hosted at ArabComment. The regular column will return later this month. When I first met Rana Husseini, I was struck by how forthright...
"The Damned, In the Heart of Ice" is the previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's saga. “How did you think it would end up?” I ask my enemy, my brother. “I asked my people to warn you. I...
Adina Hoffman lives in Jerusalem. She is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. She has contributed to The Nation, The Washington Post, The Times Literary Supplement...
One might be forgiven for imagining that there is nothing new about an edition of unpublished work by J.R.R. Tolkien. Since his father's death in 1973, Christopher Tolkien has released The...
In his new book, Life, Inc., Douglas Rushkoff lays bare the history of corporations and how our society became shaped in their image. He theorizes that corporatism has such a hold on us that we tend...
The Purity Myth (Avalon, 2009) was written by Jessica Valenti of the feminist blog Feministing. It seeks to explore the issue of virginity as obsession and comment on how said obsession is ultimately...
This is a review of Wetlands by Charlotte Roche, with translator Tim Mohr (Fourth Estate Ltd., 2009). Please note that in keeping with the subject matter, this review contains graphic language. If...
"The Damned, To the South" is the previous installment of Chloe Bradshaw's saga. I remember Antarctica as a desolate place, and also the most beautiful. The sun shines down upon the five of us as we...
We once considered families to consist of a mother, father and their offspring. With the rising tide of divorce, single motherhood, gay adoption, feminism, and polyamorism, what we understand as...
