A River Dies of Thirst: Journals

A River Dies of Thirst: JournalsThis remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwishs last volume to come out in Arabic. River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play. Darwishs musings on unrest and loss dwell on love and humanity; myth and dream are inseparable from truth. Throughout this personal collection, Darwish returns frequently to his ongoing and often lighthearted

In exploring why good bookstores matter

Each essay is a tour of the history of ideas and imagination

One of the many online portals that sprung up in the wake of Reformasi

first of all

and tall tales about the city he arguably saw clearest

reliving the triumphs

portraying the romance of a young Thai man and a married older woman

as The Weaponization of Expertise makes painfully clear

In The Constitution of Ancient China

It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido

which reduces politics to a matter of opinion