Features
Thursday, April 2 2009
Whitewashed: America’s Invisible Middle Eastern Identity
As the Middle Eastern American community has been perceived to be less Christian and more Muslim since 9/11, so too is the assumption that they are unable to assimilate because of religious differences.
Columns
Thursday, April 12 2007
Is Obama the Last in a Long Line of Firsts?
It doesn’t even matter if your achievement isn’t something a lot of people might want to emulate; you’ll go to your grave eulogized as the “first black (fill-in-the-blank)”, and every Black History Month someone will remember your name.
Reviews
Thursday, February 5 2009
The Guardian Book of Rock & Roll by Michael Hann (ed.)
A little editorial intervention should perhaps have been included to challenge the legitimacy of having a member of the Kooks deride the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
Friday, January 30 2009
The Best Australian Stories 2008, ed. Delia Falconer
This is less a Nick Hornby mixtape, with each selection ordered just so, and more akin to an mp3 playlist, inviting the reader to dip in and out at leisure.
Tuesday, February 8 2005
The Best American Science Writing, 2004 by Dava Sobel and Jesse Cohen
To fiddle confidently in the field of general relativity or to wander among the molecules busily making protein and then to write about it for mass consumption takes talent and courage.
Sunday, January 1 1995
The IV Lounge Reader by Paul Vermeersch, ed.
This book, like a jewel made more interesting by flaws, is unique because we see authors genuinely struggling with the material to make it work. It is vital and alive.
Sunday, January 1 1995
In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself by Marlow Peerse Weaver, ed.
...calls upon writers all over the world born between the years 1960 and 1982 to express the thoughts, hopes, fears, and concerns of 'Generation X', now that they're old enough to qualify for nostalgia.
