Props for anyone who gets the movie reference in the title of this post. Non-Muslim women have pontificated on the niqab (face-veil) and its relation to Western culture before. *cough* Admittedly, a lot of our comments, my comments included, can be rather presumptuous and patronizing, even if we don’t mean them to be. I’ve beenContinue reading “Shorter Danielle Crittenden: Throw the Niqabi Off the Train!”
Category Archives: Writers
The death penalty sucks
And Greg Bloom is on hand to tell us why – on GC today. Permalink here.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
A lot of people who talk about Stephen King tend to qualify their statements with a “well, it’s not real literature or anything, but at least it’s entertaining.” There is something very self-conscious about this. It’s like saying, “I’m not a pig-faced consumer of mass media like them other folk, or anything, but they wereContinue reading “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon”
Good Reads
Alie Eteraz has been a bad boy (or good boy? You never can tell) in Las Vegas. M. is, by all indications, having a gorgeous Thanksgiving. And as for me, I’m reading Donne and thinking about the banality of murder and death.
Christopher Pike
I started learning English in earnest with the books of R. L. Stine. I started learning about myself when I, at thirteen years old, picked up Christopher Pike. The first book I read by him was Road to Nowhere. It had a garish cover – my mother was aghast. She had raised me reading PushkinContinue reading “Christopher Pike”
Natalia A. 