Indigenous to the Hood
On Los Angeles's Gang Tours
November 26th, 2012“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Sheikh and I: Ghostwriting for a Crown Prince in Exile
Ghostwriting for a crown prince in exile
January 8th, 2013
Letter From Trinidad: Beyoncé Is Gold
Like all pop stars of the stature she’s now attained, Beyoncé is less an expresser of herself than a mirror for our fantasies and fears.
May 27th, 2011
Mentors: Siddhartha Deb
While a student of his I often felt the tectonic plates of my own opinions and tightly-held ideas loosen or shift.
January 5th, 2012
From Moscow Art Theatre to Catfish Row
Mamoulian, perhaps more than anyone else, defined the original racial landscape that became the setting for Porgy and Bess.
February 28th, 2012
Mr. Amis's Planet
Martin Amis has always been a casualty of his own biography.
April 25th, 2012
Becoming Story: The State of the Memoir
'Memoir begins not with event but with the intuition of meaning...'
January 10th, 2013
We Can Be Heroes: Poetry at the Olympics (Part 4)
On Trampoline and Women's Boxing
August 7th, 2012
The Gaza Poetry Roundtable: Part III
Palestinian and Israeli Poets in Conversation
December 2nd, 2012
The Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan Zaqtan
Support for Zaqtan upon Canada's refusal of visa
June 3rd, 2013
Untucking "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Virginia Woolf, camp, and queer identity
May 6th, 2013
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Biography & Autobiography
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Television
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