Adding to my #TBR list.
> Hundreds of children disappeared in Argentina. Their grandmothers united to find them
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/08/nx-s1-5494307/argentina-dirty-war-grandmothers-flower-traveled-in-my-blood
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗗𝗼𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗼" (𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲) 𝗯𝘆 𝗢𝘀𝗮𝗺𝘂 𝗧𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗸𝗮 -
A child sacrificed to 48 demons returns to reclaim, rebuild, and revenge, all while "aided" by an elusive child thief, Dororo. What is going on here? I've been told I must find out!
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗠𝗮𝗼 𝗜𝗜" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗟𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗼 -
An artist/writer is pulled out of his seclusion to engage the postmodern world of terrorism and war, a struggle of individual consciences against mob thought. I chose this for the theme and as a follow-up to Alameddine's "Comforting Myths."
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈’𝐦 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠: "𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐲 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐁𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬" 𝐛𝐲 𝐎𝐦𝐚𝐫 𝐄𝐥 𝐀𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐝 -
El Akkad's book is about Israel's atrocities in Gaza, yes, but more it is a flaying of the mythological moral facades of Western liberalism, the stories we tell ourselves and the ones we refuse to let go. Here is an excerpt.
𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝘄𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗢𝗺𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗹 𝗔𝗸𝗸𝗮𝗱 -
Akkad has been a writer/journalist covering the horrors of conflict and politics for many years, but the Gaza genocide has provoked this account, this argument, against the mythology of Western moral rightness. Bracing.