https://tinyurl.com/TranslateHeba I’ve been entrusted to translate a Gazan poet’s manuscript, which I can’t read. I speak almost no Arabic and can’t decipher a single letter. I was not taught the Arabic alphabet at any stage of my Israeli schooling, elementary, middle or high. It is the poet’s widower who entrusts me with her work. When I meet him, I am under the impression that he aspires to translate his late wife’s writing himself. A public radio story about him menti

(Excerpt from Mixed City , a developing book of nonfiction by Naama Goldstein) The Wisconsinite oboist is as entranced as her lover by the pink-glazed almond cake jeweled with pomegranate arils. Together they huddle over their desserts, conferring. I have seated this couple at my table before. They experience food in committee, I read that as auspicious. They are wise to expand the shared sensual map.  I am rooting for the broadening turf. But do I remember or am I imagining

She was a senior environmental, health and safety specialist instructed to endorse what she couldn’t. She quit that position.    Or she would have gone mad, she reports, and we all see and know how that played out for her. This speaker can channel the temper of derealization, abysmal. Everyone present can access a related ordeal.    We have all dealt with tests of this category. You are admonished to split from your wisdom and conscience. You are prompted to lock into the pre

Dedicated to ProPeaceBoston As I advanced through childhood and youth in a city of the Israeli interior, the few Palestinians sharing my...

Vigil participants have amassed on the Beacon Street pavement a display of cookware, empty steel pots referencing another city’s people...

The compact sedan is braked at kissing distance from the monstrous rear of a bus, awaiting a light change, the motorist demonstrating her...

A guest who has stayed here before but the animal is new to the household, a rescue answering to a bombastic praenomen. Telemachus, an...

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. 1) Read the passage below....

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. 1) Read the passage below....

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. 1) Read the passage below....

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. 1) Read the passage...

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. 1) Read the passage...

Tailored to the time-starved readership. No need to organize a group. Pull in a companion only if you want to. Step 1) Read the brief...