Required Reading

This week: Joe Sacco on truth and art, the invention of “close reading,” a century of Mrs. Dalloway, Google gets a makeover, the biggest and smallest dogs meet, and much more.

Required Reading
Under the shade of a tree in Al-Arroub Camp, 87-year-old Ghalia Muqbil recalled the beginning of the Nakba, which is commemorated around the world today. She told photojournalist Mosab Shawer that the Israeli army killed her father and displaced her and other Palestinians from the village of Iraq Al-Manshiyya, and even now she fears they will kill her if she tries to go back. Like countless others of her generation, who are older than the state of Israel itself, Muqbil still carries her original house key in hopes of one day returning home. (photo by Mosab Shawer/Middle East Images via AFP and Getty Images)