Bright Unbearable Reality: EssaysCalled a chronicler of a world on the move by The New York Review of Books, Anna Badkhen seeks what separates and binds us at a time when one in seven people has left their birthplace, while a pandemic dictates the direst season of rupture in humankinds remembering. Her new essay collection, Bright Unbearable Reality, addresses the human condition in the era of such unprecedented dislocation, contemplates the roles of memory and wonder in how we

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he had an extraordinary diplomatic and military career in the turbulent wars and politics of Western Islam in the fourteenth century

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Elizabeth Diller

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from Mesopotamia to Confucianism to Christianity to the revolutions of the eighteenth century

revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting