Citizenship | Literature
Select novels, short stories, and nonfiction on contemporary life.
What began as a bold experiment in grassroots service produced future ambassadors to help guide U.S. diplomacy through seven decades of global upheaval.
Read, Listen, Watch
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Text and photo.
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Shouldn’t we rate ourselves on how our daily grind makes this world a better place?
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the dancers moved us to the center of a great circle, surrounded us singing and shouting and dancing, a lump forming in my throat
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This Super Bowl, I’m rooting for The Cherry Blossoms.
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“I love you,” says the princess. “I know,” replies the smuggler.
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Just that morning, without a visa, I’d talked my way across the border. A little patience, a little humility, small Kwacha, and Dunhill cigarettes solved the visa problem.
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I would visit corners of this strange land not unlike my hometown: unknown and invisible to the world, no place of pride on any map, unsung in the guide books. Places nobody came from and nobody went to. Corn farms. Tobacco farms.
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As I think of the potential substitutes, two women who bring Indian, African, and Jamaican descent into the picture, it occurs to me that American presidential campaigns have always been a sort of groundhog day event.
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All travel writing is essentially the same. The essence shifts away from plot and in favor of setting.
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Sometimes it feels like it’s all just slip-sliding-away.
Ben East Books 