Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it.

You have think tanks like the widely respected Atlantic Council that have published reports in the past year that have called Afghanistan a failing state.

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

For you, a thousand times over

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.