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Imaginary Encounters
“What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?” This is the provocative question that...
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Literature’s Global Age
Globalization, while retaining the veneer that it brings communities and nations together also threatens our identities as individuals and as societies as we incorporate and assimilate the world around...
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The Stillborn Two-State Solution
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war began on June 5 with a surprise assault on the Egyptian air force. By its completion, this pre-emptive Six-Day War more than tripled the territory under Israel’s control. To...
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To Know Harm
On 1 November 2012, in the aftermath of New York City’s devastation following Hurricane Sandy, Staten Island Borough president James Molinaro shocked New Yorkers by denouncing the Red Cross and asking...
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A Palestinian Odyssey
The question of the existence and validity of the Palestinians as a people historically tied to a specific land has been the absurdist debate for decades among many Israelis and their Western...
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Revolutionary, not a Revolution
For anyone who hasn't been paying attention for the past ten years, or even the past two, here is where we stand on the decline of "traditional media": Instead of consuming the nightly news at 6 or 10...
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Anatolian Ambivalence
What deeply dissatisfies Anna, Doris Lessing’s protagonist and surrogate in The Golden Notebook, is her inability to use the novel to make philosophical statements about life. Anna has just published...
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To Judge Meaningfully
Daniel Mendelsohn got it somewhat wrong. Although an award-winning writer, critic, and translator who has been a powerful presence in publishing and culture for over fifteen years, Mendelsohn slipped up.
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An Artificial Innocence
Always Coca-Cola, the debut novel by Lebanese writer Alexandra Chreiteh, centers around three friends, Abeer and Yasmine, university students in Beirut, and Yana, a Romanian model.
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Like a Straw Bird
Ghassan Zaqtan’s paralyzing poetry, translated by Fady Joudah, is laden with ruminations on death. “I’ve been dead for a long time, as you know,” Zaqtan writes in a letter to his daughter (The...
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It would be easy to write Anwar Congo off as a brutal, merciless, and corrupt mass murderer and relegate him to the corner of history reserved for pure evil. After all, Congo is a notorious Indonesian...
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You, Only Richer
When I was in college, an older friend who frequented the café where I worked recommended I read a certain classic self-help book.
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(Extra)Ordinary Girls
In a span of 100 minutes, Girl Rising, the new film by Academy Award nominee Richard Robbins, conveys the stories of nine diverse, ambitious and fearless girls from nine countries.
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Commodified Rebellion
Your first thought on picking up Necropolis, the latest from Colombian novelist Santiago Gamboa, is that it has a rather awesome title. Your second thought, though, is a question, namely: An awesome...
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Remembering the Korean War
In her new book In the Shadow of the Greatest Generation: The Americans Who Fought the Korean War, Melinda L.
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Adichie's American Dream
I live in a small town in Minnesota and for the past few months I have started to get my weekly groceries from a different store. My Indian friend who gives me a ride in her car loves to self-check-out...
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The Story of Wikileaks?
On the one hand, the individual mind registers and is very much aware of the collective whole, context, or situation in which it finds itself.
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