In May 2016, Baha Nababta was shot and killed by an unknown assailant while he was working with a group of volunteers to repair a street near his home in the Shuafat Refugee Camp, occupied East Jerusalem.
Moriel Rothman-Zecher on "Nababta" |
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Explaining the Sale of Simon & Schuster
"It is, in one sense, the continuation of an old story. The corporatization of publishing began in the 1960s. Times Mirror acquired the esteemed mass-market paperback house New American Library in 1960 and hired McKinsey consultants to rationalize its operations, leading to increasing control for the business office and an exodus of editorial talent that included luminaries such as E. L. Doctorow and André Schiffrin."
via LOS ANGELES TIMES |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Dong Li on Evan S. Connell's Notes From a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel
"Vestigial shards of old legend and lore dart in and out of vertiginous fragments of human folly and futility, now like lightning on a clear day, now like fireflies on a talkative night. The 'I' slyly travails through historical significance and triviality until the tribulations of fear, faith, and ferocity surface in a dizzying dream state, hauling history into the prophetic present, where associative meanings are distilled into a crude and cruel illumination." |
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