He often tells her the tale of her making. He whispers it against the ears he sews to her head. He hums it while he smooths skin across bones, draws thread through flesh, cradles organs before setting them in place.
The goddess Venus is an essential example of this multidimensionality. Even though she is an explicitly feminine figure––as a mother goddess of love, sexuality, and beauty––she played an extremely important role in Roman religion and national identity.
Anil’s Ghost reveals the complex tension between the individual and the many present in human rights work and the portrayal of war and atrocity in general.
Dune tells the story of two competing colonial powers warring over a resource-rich planet, one with clear parallels to Soviet Russia, and the other with clear influences of 1950s and ’60s America.
