Making Sense through Acceptance in Hala Alyan’s “The Moon That Turns You Back”

Making Sense through Acceptance in Hala Alyan’s “The Moon That Turns You Back”

[ad_1] Palestinian-American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan always has a way of replicating the unreliability of time and delivering one-line monumental truths. Her latest poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back, experiments with form and represents the disjointedness of what the in-between looks and feels like. Alyan often writes about diaspora and … Read more

The Politics of Making History in “The Burning of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

The Politics of Making History in “The Burning of the World” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Chicago was a tinderbox. In 1871, the city was packed with wood-frame houses, wooden sidewalks, and hay-filled barns, nestled alongside lumber processing mills, paper factories, wood-frame churches, and saloons. Thirty-four years since its municipal incorporation, Chicago was now home to over 300,000 people, roughly half of them immigrants who journeyed to the city seeking … Read more