From “Dark Matter,” an essay that appears in Bright Unbearable Reality, which will be published this month by New York Review Books. There are no cattle on the ranch, though…
By Anna Badkhen, from Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah, out this month from Riverhead Books. Badkhen is the author of several previous books, including…
Anna Badkhen on life in rural Afghanistan and the friction between violence and beauty