Jacob Russell Wrote About Becoming A Father In A War Zone

For the Paris Review, Jacob Russell wrote “a first person essay on navigating new fatherhood as war engulfed Lebanon.” Russell writes, “During that first chapter of war in Beirut, Sharif was just a few months old. He had begun to eat solids, to smile, to swim along the floor on his belly. He watched constantly: consuming, labeling, and cross-referencing with his eyes. In our apartment, the world moved in time with the rise and fall of his chest.”