The fabric of American society can easily unravel. It's happened elsewhere | Francine Prose



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The news from Portland and Kenosha and beyond reminds us of how badly things can go wrong In 1989, I visited Sarajevo for a literary festival. My family spent our days at poetry readings, in cafes, exploring the city’s mosques, museums, its spectacular Eastern Orthodox churches, its synagogue and ancient bazaar. It was a beautiful city, part Hapsburg, part Ottoman, part former Soviet satellite. I remember telling my two sons: This I what civil society looks like! Watch how often, on buses and trams, young people offer their seats to the elderly! Three years later, the city had become a battleground in the bloody civil war that pitted Serbs against Muslims against Croats. The cafes were in ruins, the National Library destroyed along with 2m priceless books. Citizens barricaded themselves in their dark, cold homes, racing out to get food as Serbian snipers shot at them from the hills. Our profoundly serious problems – racism, income inequality, to name just two – will be hard to fix, but it turns out to be horrifyingly easy to worsen them Francine Prose is a former president of PEN American Center and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Continue reading…


The fabric of American society can easily unravel. It's happened elsewhere | Francine Prose

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