It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.
Aleksandar HemonWhat fiction and art can do, particularly narrative art, is construct consciousness - in a sense, we have to do it for the first time, every time.
Aleksandar HemonProjecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity
Aleksandar HemonI'll take any life in which I can make choices and have agency, and America is not a bad place for all that.
Aleksandar Hemon