Erin L. Thompson examines the poignant yet playful recollections in Mansoor Adayfi’s memoir "Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo."
“It’s the Black House Now!”: Mansoor Adayfi’s Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo
Reviews
Miguel’s War and the Shattered Mirrors of Queer Redemption
Paul Amar inspects Eliane Raheb’s cross-Mediterranean documentary film "Miguel’s War."
The Art of Temporal Resistance
Karla Kelsey inspects the interrelation of ecology and time in Cole Swensen's "Art in Time."
Expert Isolation: Reading Jhumpa Lahiri’s Whereabouts
Helena Roy reviews Jhumpa Lahiri's latest novel in translation, "Whereabouts (Dove mi trovo)."
Pandemic Story Time
Julia Walton reflects on the books that got her young family through the COVID-19 tedium.
No Heroes: On Courtney Stephens’s Terra Femme
Rachel Elizabeth Jones looks at who owns the void in Courtney Stephens's "Terra Femme."
Redemption Through Reciprocity in Apology to the Young Addict
"Throughout the book there is a hesitancy on the part of Brown to make any type of leap of faith, and yet I never stop believing in him."
Gone Broody: Grief and Care in Jackie Polzin’s Brood
Lynne Feeley investigates Jackie Polzin's interpretation of motherhood and unavoidable loss.
Fear Makes You a Monster: Mariana Enriquez’s Political Horror Allegories
Nate McNamara finds echoes of the trauma of dictatorship in Mariana Enriquez’s corpus.
The Humility of Barry Lopez’s Arctic Dreams
Mary Perera unwinds the strands of nature and ephemeral thought in Barry Lopez’s 1980 essay collection "Arctic Dreams."
