Guantánamo Diary belongs in a canon of great social justice memoirs not only for the unique context in which the story was written but also for its power and eloquence.

Why did you welcome it into the house?

Besides having a great mind, Jefferson had a great ego—also for good and ill.

'The Enthusiast,' by Jon Sweeney

On the first day, I didn’t know it was the first day.

Home water, why?Cold sunlight, new heavenstrikes the shallows of white,wavering tissue, new earth.They are here,gaining the still pool,a million salmon bones.Soul flood. Head down.Study this hieroglyph, stunned. Metal-skinned swimmerscrash from the hurtling channelto this blinding delta,where m