Nausheen Eusuf

Saturday morning: on the brick plaza at the corner of Fourth and Catheri

The barred windows and fortress walls,

Sentences are the workhorse of writing—so much so that we forget that they do more than just say something. Of course, a sentence communicates some sort of meaning, but how it says is as important as what it says.

When I first came to the US for college, I was perplexed by the physical education requirement: we had no such thing in Bangladesh.

It's a bit odd for me as a healthy 30-something-year-old to be writing about death. But having lived through the protracted agony of my mother's death from kidney failure and complications from dialysis, I feel I have some authority on the subject.

Here are the steps leading down to the lake

507 dead and 22,407 injured in political violence in Bangladesh in 2013

I don't mean law and order, in which we are woefully indigent, but artistic order, the kind created by art and literature. I mean the idea