“‘It is.'”
A novelist confronts the siege in Gaza. The Floutist is pleased to publish for the first time, an excerpt from Peter Dimock’s novel in progress. This “fragment,” to use Dimock’s term, is nothing less than a literary meditation on the impunity…
“‘Palestinian Voices’ makes its goal.”
We’re in this project together now. To our readers, I am pleased to announce that we’ve met our fundraising goal for “Palestinian Voices.” In just six days, The Floutist’s readers and supporters stepped forward in a generous show of support for…
“Starvation as a weapon of war.”
Palestinian voices have never been more urgent. “This is the fastest decline in a population’s nutrition status ever recorded. That means children are being starved at the fastest rate the world has ever seen.”—Melanie Ward, Medical Aid for Palestinians. 1…
“Our common humanity.”
‘Palestinian Voices,’ an update. Many of us like to ask ourselves, “What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” The answer…
“The Floutist goes to Palestine.”
A letter to readers. To our readers, With this letter The Floutist launches a new project. We’re calling it “Palestinian Voices” because our intent is to travel to Israel and the West Bank, listen to as many Palestinians as we can, and…
“Gaza dreams.”
The first prayer. “One must remember to breathe,” a reader who goes by Unabiker wrote to us today. He elaborated, “All nuance, complexity, and all of perception has been compressed to an epistemological black hole. This is the world as…
“Genocide is not a ‘lesser evil.'”
How will Democrats vote in November? On Tuesday of last week, my Senator of many decades, Democrat Patty Murray of Washington State, joined 72 of her colleagues to kill a resolution that would have required the State Department to produce…
“‘Terrorism,’ this insidious word.”
It has many dangers. John V. Whitbeck Reacting to the U.S. response after the events of 11 September 2001, John Whitbeck, an international attorney of long standing, wrote a piece on the use and abuse of the word “terrorism” for Global…
“Birdsong and laughter.”
Remembering what matters most. Over the holidays, a friend paused toward the end of an evening’s talk and jollifications to ask, “Should we be celebrating?” We stood together in front of the decorated Christmas tree and in the course of…
“A New Year’s note to readers.”
Brief thoughts on the year gone by and the year ahead. 30 DECEMBER—There must be many years at the end of which it is tempting to rank them among the truly awful. Maybe this thought is a comment on our…
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