Writing, obsessing & reading. A short review of readings in 2025

I feel I am entering so headstrong into the big, scary, unpredictable times of 2026 that it feels silly now (late January) to write a post about my favorite books from 2025, or what I wrote, or whatever. (…) Last year I wrote more than I ever did in any other year of my life, as in more words AND more as in more time writing AND more as in constantly (weekly, as a practice).

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Read Palestine: Light In Gaza & Palestinian poems

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:

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