The latest installment from "a powerful force in the literary world"
(Los Angeles Times) Freeman's turns to one of the greatest elevating
forces of life: love
In a time of contentiousness and flagrant abuse, it often feels as if
our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it
possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest
issue of this acclaimed series, Freeman's Love asks this question,
bringing together literary heavyweights like Tommy Orange, Anne Carson,
Louise Erdrich, and Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk alongside emerging
writers such as Gunnhild Øyehaug and Semezdin Mehmedinovic.
Mehmedinovic contributes a breathtaking book-length essay on the
aftermath of his wife's stroke, describing how the two reassembled their
lives outside their home country of Bosnia. Richard Russo's charming and
painful "Good People" introduces us to two sets of married professors
who have been together for decades, and for whom love still exists, but
between the wrong pair. Haruki Murakami tells the tale of a one-night
stand that feels like a dying sun.
Together, the pieces comprise a stunning exploration of the complexities
of love, tracing it from its earliest stirrings, to the forbidden places
where it emerges against reason, to loss so deep it changes the color of
perception. In a time when we need it the most, this issue promises what
only love can bring: a solace of complexity and warmth.
