On Literacy and the Lack Thereof
Marcus Gilroy-Ware, the author of After the Fact, The Truth About Fake News, warns that literacy and numeracy are on the wain.
Category: Essays
The Short, Happy Life of Shirley Thompson
Novelist Preeta Samarasan believes that the greatest truths reside more often in fiction than in fact.
Poet in Pakistan: the Flamboyant Carolyn Kizer
Biographer Marian Janssen reveals the big, brash, blonde feminist writer and poet Carolyn Kizer, who fascinated and shocked Pakistanis—and introduced the ghazal to America.
France’s Fake Islamo-Leftist Crisis
One of France's prime "Islamo-leftist" suspects, Raphaël Liogier, explains why the term does not apply and what the true danger is (hint: it's not Islam).
A Permanent Temporariness
An Egyptian in Berlin finds she and her partner live in a state of seemingly permanent transition.
Dear Neighbors With the Trump/Pence Sign
Novelist and poet Laila Halaby reconciles herself with the neighborhood.
An Outsider’s Long Goodbye
I love Beirut. I've lived there for longer than I've lived anywhere else on earth. But what happened in Beirut on August 4th is profoundly not my story.