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10 speculative fictions I read and loved in 2023

By Maria Martelli | ianuarie 11, 2024

Because I love lists & speculative fiction & remembering what I thought about what I read, I’m making this one – it has no order except kind-of-a-chronological order? And it contains a bit of cheating because the last two I finished in 2024 and

Read Palestine: Light In Gaza & Palestinian poems

By Maria Martelli | ianuarie 8, 2024

Read Palestine: Light in Gaza book cover, Everything comes next book cover, Things you may find hidden in my ear book cover

In the essay “Gaza asks: When shall this pass?” poet and academician Refaat Alareer writes with force and vulnerability about the long-held resilience of Palestinian people, the reliance on saying “it shall pass” from grandmother to mother, transmitted intergenerationally. One form of resistance is storytelling, as he writes: