David Kipen predicts an updraft -- Edward Hower on fierce cruelty and love -- Loyal Miles on the context for the examination of self -- Arley Loewen on redemption -- Mir Hekmatullah Sadat on Husseini's unveiling of Afghanistan -- Ronny Noor on some of the novel's limitations -- Meghan O'Rourke looks for middle ground -- Judi Slayden Hayes on visions of time -- Fatemeh Keshavarz on "new Orientalism" -- Shafiq Shamel on the novel's solution.