I Grew Up Reading 'the Jungle Books'

The Acceptance That All That Is Solid Has Melted Into The Air, That Reality And Morality Are Not Givens But Imperfect Human Constructs, Is The Point From Which Fiction Begins.

Laila Lalami Has Fashioned An Absorbing Story Of One Of The First Encounters Between Spanish Conquistadores And Native Americans, A Frightening, Brutal, And Much-falsified History That Here, In Her Brilliantly Imagined Fiction, Is Rewritten To Give Us Something That Feels Very Like The Truth.

Language Is Courage: The Ability To Conceive A Thought, To Speak It, And By Doing So To Make It True.

It's A Terrible Thing That Your Life Turns Into A Good Story.

Free Speech Is Life Itself.