Life Is Elsewhere. Cross Frontiers. Fly Away.

Laila Lalami Has Fashioned An Absorbing Story Of One Of The First Encounters Between Spanish Conquistadores And Native Americans, A Frightening, Brutal, And Much-falsified History That Here, In Her Brilliantly Imagined Fiction, Is Rewritten To Give Us Something That Feels Very Like The Truth.

All Names Mean Something.

Whores And Writers, Mahound. We Are The People You Can't Forgive.

It's Kennedy's War, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson Got All The Flak, But It's Kennedy's War.

The Fact Of Being Alive Compensated For What Life Did To One.