Once I took a weeklong walk in the Sahara -- The pandemic, our common story -- How to read the air -- Acts of humanity -- Ways of seeing -- Bright unbearable reality -- Landscape with Icarus -- False passives -- Forgiving the unforgiveable -- Dark matter -- Jericho.
Summary
"In these essays, Badkhen addresses the human condition in the era of such unprecedented dislocation, contemplates the roles of memory and wonder in how we relate to one another, and asks how we can soberly and responsibly counter despair and continue to develop—or at least imagine—an emotional vocabulary against depravity." -- "Original collection of essays by Anna Badkhen. Anna Badkhen is a writer. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Barry Lopez Visiting Writer in Ethics and Community Fellowship, and the Joel R. Seldin Award from Psychologists for Social Responsibility for writing about civilians in war zones. She has published six books of nonfiction, and her essays, dispatches, and short stories appear in periodicals and literary magazines such as the New York Review of Books, Granta, The Common, Scalawag, Guernica, the Paris Review, and the New York Times. Badkhen is a contributing editor to the Mānoa Journal"--
