“I’m not coming back to this building, not coming back to this neighborhood, not coming back to Jerusalem. The lie I’d told my children about a future in which Arabs and Jews share the country equally was over.” Sayed Kashua (“perhaps the most visible representative of Palestinian life in Israel”) is now living in Illinois. His departure represents the diminishing hope for a peaceful Middle East. As Amos Oz said: “The fact that he left saddened me greatly. I can tell you that over the summer there wasn’t a decent Israeli who didn’t have similar thoughts.” In The New Yorker, Ruth Margalit on An Exile in the Corn Belt.