Yasmin Nair

It’s like an episode of Friends, only sadder.

“I think that’s certainly something that can be said about the Iraq War: We are over there trying to save people who didn’t ask us to be there and who didn’t want to be saved by us. And that’s something he’s attuned to, and something a lot of military people are attuned to.”

Blind Fall stumbles from the burden of having to be a novel about gay issues, rather than the more satisfying thriller it could have been.

Surely, whatever else ails radical organizing: it’s not a dearth of coupledom or maternal feeling.