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Book: ‘Mothers, Fathers, and Others’ addresses the realities of motherhood

Siri Hustvedt seeks to reclaim the messiness of motherhood. Aren’t we, she asks, all mixed up, a melange, a mess? Photo: Detail: ‘Mothers, Fathers, and Others’ 20 December 2021 | SHARMILA MUKHERJEE | NPR Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays by Siri Hustvedt Simon & Schuster In one of the essays in Mothers, Fathers, and Others, Siri Hustvedt recalls…

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Excerpt: The Vietnam War

Photo: Title: Anti-Vietnam War placards surround Toronto’s war memorial in 1969. Photographer: Reg. Innell Date: April 6, 1969 28 July 2021 | The War | James Porteous | Excerpt from All of Me The scorched-earth images from Vietnam were so horrendous, so unimaginably brutal that it soon became clear to me that everything that would…

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Poets, fighters and dreamers: Kurdish women tell their own stories a new collection

Photo: The anthology celebrates the “colourful lives” of Kurdish women, says editor Houzan Mahmoud (AFP/Delil Souleiman) ‘Kurdish Women’s Stories’ gives voice to women who ‘kept the momentum of political struggle in Kurdistan alive’ but whose experiences are often overshadowed 17 June 2021 | Sarah Mills | Middle East Eye I said, ‘Listen, when I bring home…

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