My Country Attacked Ukraine

Now I don’t have a country.

Photo by Sasha Matveeva on Unsplash

Elizabeth Hardwick once said that people write for two reasons: revenge or desperation. I would be so bold as to go further and suggest that writers write for one reason only — desperation. Revenge, the last resort for many people, is, in many ways, simply a form of desperation sublimed as anger. I know from personal experience that when I am immobilised and can’t live…