Edward Said, My Grandfather, and the Problem of Home (opens in new tab)

Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera at Public Books: “Reflections on Exile” summoned to mind the only seven words my grandfather ever said to me about Ireland, where he had cousins he never knew: “I don’t think I’ll go back there,” he muttered one day in the 1990s, in response to my prodding. He had visited, seen family, kissed…