some stories don't need telling

There is a way to be good again.

My wife is my in-home editor and reads everything I write.

If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

The Kite Runner is a story of two boys and a father, and the strange love triangle that binds them.

Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.