#pulitzer-prize

#pulitzer-prize

There was an explosion right near me, you may have heard, he said in a calm, New Zealand-accented voice moments after the loud boom of a missile strike rattled across the airwaves. As he continued to speak air-raid sirens blared in the background. I think that took out the telecommunications center, he said of another explosion. They are hitting the center of the city.

"He possesses a quiet, encyclopaedic knowledge of art, and in column after column he connected the dots of culture, history, folklore, civics and psychology in razor-sharp assessments of what a piece of art really means, or how a particular exhibition is poised to change the narrative around a longstanding or misguided idea. In short, he is everything a truly excellent critic should be."

Some people mistake writer Junot Diaz, 56, for a rock star even though he doesn't look like one. The writer who does look like one and who also wanders the halls is Mariana Enriquez, with her gray hair and black clothes. The Argentine is another illustrious participant in the Cosmopoetica Festival, which ended on October 5. What the audacious Leiva fan doesn't know is that he's standing before a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

In Gaza, every destroyed house becomes a kind of album, filled not with photos but with real people, the dead pressed between its pages.