The fifth most visited city in Europe is the dragon city, otherwise known as beautiful Krakow. Its name dates back to a legend of a terrible dragon, defeated when a simple shoemaker named Krak...
He's an informant for the FBI Whack the Dalai Lama - The Dickies, "Whack the Dalai Lama" Okay, I don't actually advocate harming the Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, and don't hold serious...
This is a review of A Possible Peace Between Israel and Palestine: An Insider's Account of the Geneva Initiative by Menachem Klein, translated by Haim Watzman. Columbia University Press. 2007. We are...
Women have an incredible ability to block out memories of sever physical pain; how else can you explain the fact that many sign up to endure labor again by having more than one child? Surely it...
The Patriots are 18-1; a man hides his face against my shoulder, because the world had suddenly become too much to bear. A few seconds ago, I was trying to eat two chicken drumsticks at the same...
A lot of my intellectual friends (the sort of people who, with a dignified cough, announce that they do not "indulge in mass media entertainment," and other, less extreme types) repeatedly ask me why...
A few months ago I was standing in line at the post office talking to someone on the cell and every now and then I used an Urdu word. Sometimes when I speak Urdu, I say an English word with a FOB...
As I recall, the term “perfect storm” was coined in New England in October 1991, when several storm fronts merged to spectacularly clobber the coastline. Now, the American political system this...
Dear Readers, These two poems are presented here together, because they are meant to compliment one another. Mustapha Marrouchi is as glorious, and grave, as ever. It is a privilege to continue...
Of all the indignities one has to suffer on account of being publicly female, nothing irks me quite as much as being screamed at from of passing cars. Or so is the case as of late, anyway. Harassment...
