Can you imagine if we referred to the sons of the CEO of Goldman Sachs as “princelings?”
Democracy is important. And it is difficult.
Women Who Write like Men and Men Who Write like Women
In his new book, The Secret Life of Pronouns: What our Words Say about Us, James W. Pennebaker uses his research in computational linguistics to break down the differences in the ways women and men speak. And in one fascinating chapter, he explores how this relates to writers.
Reality Examined to the Point of Madness
Krasznahorkai tries to accomplish a lot more than most contemporary American authors have the bad taste to.
The Internet is a Cabinet of Wonders
I can’t think of anything to write about today, but luckily the Internet is a Cabinet of Wonders so if I can’t write, I don’t have to. Instead, I’ll send you somewhere else.
Cairo is in chaos. When I walked home Saturday evening through the quiet winding streets of Garden City, the central Cairo neighborhood where I live, a faint teargas-filled breeze made my eyes water and my throat close.
Books becoming movies, movies becoming books
There’s no formula for making a successful film adaptation, so the results are wildly uneven when it comes to representing the source material. Adapters have different intentions for undertaking this kind of project, running the gamut between striking while the iron is hot and bringing a story to a new audience in earnest.
There are 758 words in the statement released Saturday by the Chancellor of UC Davis, Linda Katehi. One of the words not included in this statement: sorry.
Full Stop editor arrested at #OccupyPhilly Day of Action [updated]
Full Stop Managing Editor Jesse Montgomery was arrested last night while participating in a march that aimed to draw attention to the decrepit state of Philadelphia’s infrastructure, and the failure of congress to create jobs for working people.
It’s a difficult truth about being a member of a special-status group, a group that has to deal with its identity politics, that you have to make a decision about how to participate in a troubled and often troubling discourse.