A Hymn to Life: On “Shatila Stories”
Isaac Nowell relishes “Shatila Stories,” a “hymn to life” written in the Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut.
Isaac Nowell relishes “Shatila Stories,” a “hymn to life” written in the Shatila refugee camp in southern Beirut.
Isaac Nowell reviews Michael Longley’s “Angel Hill.”
Isaac Nowell wades into the “slow lava-flow” of “The Last Wolf” by László Krasznahorkai.
Isaac Nowell admires the bowerbird’s bower of quotations in “Sweet Theft” by J. D. McClatchy.