Meanwhile elsewhere—” begins Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, depicting an unparticularized city; cars, highways, half-desert and mountains, the ever-rising ocean. Later there’s a description, almost as if a sales pitch for this tourist town. He says he knows the city has been ravaged by the war but the architectural solutions are so fascinating. The fact that... The post Writing Disaster in Balsam Karam’s The Singularity, translated by Saskia Vogel from Shinjini Dey appeared firs...
