The Other Side of Israel
This is a review of The Other side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish-Arab Divide. Author: Susan Nathan. Publisher: HarperCollins, 2006 The State of Israel is a Jewish nation. Every Jew is...
Notes from the Exurbs
Life inside Boston’s easternmost ring road, west of its massive suburban mosaic, is more than the meets the eye of Google earth. This outer ring of habitation, tucked inside the burly bark of the...
A Southern Autumn
I've lived in Georgia and Alabama since 1974. I was nine when we moved here during Christmas break. I want to describe life here, so people who don't live here won't think we're all uneducated...
These Poems Associate Freely
I broke the mold. I made a mockery of your elation. I tried my hand at gravity and watched everything fly away and become the moon and so it was that nothing stood still again. And life was all a...
I Don’t Freaking Care
Just as I was beginning to sketch out this column, commissioned as it was by Global Comment, I hit a minor snag: I had no clue what I was talking about. Apparently, the whole situation in the...
The Big Dreary
I must be stuck in some dark-humoured comedy sketch. Everywhere I go in Kyiv, the same exact conversation follows me (well, perhaps I’m fudging a little, one conversation I overheard involved two...
Finkelstein-ed Academia and the Truth about Palestine
The long bitter saga of DePaul University’s scandalous decision to deny tenure to one of its most prolific and internationally renowned public intellectuals, Professor Norman Finkelstein, is...
Conspiracy Theory
I’ve forgotten the ending. It’s one of the things they took in those long days of dull yellow light – a way to pinch out the flame and watch the smoke rise against the window at night. I woke...
Only. Skin. Deep.
A few years ago, I boarded a plane heading to a small American college-town. It was my first time in the United States, and I was starting my freshman year at a prominent institution of higher...
An Inconvenient Princess
There is a strange truism at work in modern society: people who are capable of instigating real change, those who possess intellect and charisma as well as the circumstantial power to influence and...