April 2024: Eid el Fitr & War Fever

Let's talk about a short story by J.G. Ballard

Yazan Halwani’s “Tree of Memory” that commemorates the Great Famine of 1915-1918 which is “planted” in a square on Beirut’s historic Green Line. Read more about the work here.

I was reading this Vogue article about the theme of this year’s MET Gala, The Garden of Time, which was taken from J.G. Ballard’s short story of the same title. The more I read abo…