When people, particularly young people and especially young men, can't imagine themselves as heroes in narratives that they construct for themselves, they look to be heroes in some other way. So young men in America of, let's say, Muslim background, only a tiny, tiny minority - so small as to be almost zero - are likely to ever commit terrorist acts.

I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.

A reader should encounter themselves in a novel, I think.

When terrorism strikes, divisive anger is a natural response.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

If we want things to be okay, we will have to make things okay.

The world seems concerned with Pakistan primarily as an actor in global attempts to combat terrorism.