I bite my tongue and try not to curse you
I bite my tongue and try not to wish upon you
what you visited on me and mine
my voice
I know something about names, Captain.
Those who conquer must always have a name ready.
Even before the sword, before the gun.
I saw the island and called it San
Somewhere in the Saudi Arabian desert, an American corporal is reading Moby Dick. He is reading Melvilles novel, a newspaper reports, in order to understand what drives people toward
The author of ‘Death and the Maiden’ imagines what the Spanish painter might say to the US Secretary of State about his masterpiece Guernica
I have been through this before.
During the last twenty-eight years, Tuesday 11 September has been a date of mourning, for me and millions of others, ever since that day
