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 Space Between Certainties in “The Sense of Wonder” – Chicago Review of Books

The Space Between Certainties in “The Sense of Wonder” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] No book has influenced how I approach book reviews more than Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses. The book challenges the lens many readers use, one shaped by white, Western values, and is a call not only to make space for diverse storytelling, but to evaluate it on its own terms. And, … Read more