"A colleague from Kyiv, Ukraine, whom I’ll call N.M., sent me brief essays her students wrote on what they would do when the war ends. As both a scholar and a novelist, I knew that these voices, which expressed a beautifully straightforward and pure yearning for the simplest things that are lost in war, needed to be heard by the world" ... Read more
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"Is there a danger - through the current lack of action by the Security Council - that it could be damaged by what’s going on in Ukraine?"....... Read more
"....So here we still are, in the spring of 2022, perhaps a bit less alone. But now, as the pandemic begins to recede in at least parts of the world, something equally alarming has taken its place..."
“Putin makes Covid look good,” said a friend – a sentiment no doubt shared by many.....Read more