Navel-gazing with a social purpose
September 4th, 2012
On the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet
September 2nd, 2012
On the Nobel Prize-winning Yiddish patriarch and his moral universe of piety and outrage...
September 1st, 2012
The massacre of 34 striking miners in South Africa
September 1st, 2012
I lived in Shaoyang, a city in Hunan province famous for clementines and murder.
August 30th, 2012
On the director's enigmatic obsessions.
August 28th, 2012
During Black October, 67 Aymará were killed by the military while protesting the sale of natural gas to the U.S.
August 26th, 2012
Mitt Romney has described his faith as “the single most important influence in his life.” He did not go into details.
August 26th, 2012
The late 'New Yorker' writer's short story masterpiece
August 26th, 2012
A short story excerpted from the 'New Yorker' writer's 'The Lists of the Past'
August 26th, 2012
Cheryl Strayed, Erika Schickel, & a Facebook Fracas
August 25th, 2012
On the Karina Bolaños affair
August 23rd, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television." —Woody Allen... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
