June 6, 2017
Excerpts from Fiction that Capture My Own Awkward Adolescence
While reading Elif Batuman’s The Idiot, a sprawling novel that follows Harvard student Selin through her first year of college and her first romantic infatuation, I came across a description […]
November 6, 2010
Thinkin’ About Lincoln (and Whitman, and Obama)
It’s an odd election that finds both Lincoln and Whitman coming up short and that imagines Slurpees (“delicious drinks,” according to Obama) as a means to bridge partisan differences. And […]