Life near elephants
Elephants have their own, ancient geographies. “They walk 20 or 25 kilometres a day — their bodies need it.” Increasingly, in southern India, that brings them into contact, and conflict, with human beings.
The weight of a story
The words “she cries” show up sixty times in total in Bushra al-Maqtari’s What Have You Left Behind? The men in the book seem to weep less: “He cries” appears twenty times.
