A (Not- comprehensive) List of Books That Changed The World
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World by Simon Garfield Banana: The fate of the fruit that changed the world by Dan Koeppel How William Shatner…
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Jesse Nathan
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Paul Collins teaches writing at Portland State University, and his work appears regularly in New Scientist, Slate, and The Believer. His next book, The Murder of the Century, will be published in June by Crown.
Mr. Alarcon Goes to Vegas
On Voting, People Who Collect the Folk Art of People With Whom They Have No Cultural Connection, and the Red-faced Waitress Who Pulled The Plug
Poetry Shakedown
Kay Ryan’s tarot cards, the return of the rhyme, Mennonite matriarchs, Mao’s poems, Women’s Work, and Blago’s versification
Barack Obama: Those Johnny Cakes’ll getcha
Obama moonlights as a food critic on Chicago’s WTTW. He plugs the Dixie Kitchen for its Southern Sampler (perfect, he says, for the indecisive),
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam – Part 3, “I live as if the future is now.”
A Three Part Interview Roundtable Part 3 – Rayek Rizek Rayek Rizek came to Neve Shalom (a village on the green line madated 50 percent Israeli Jew and 50 percent…
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
A Three Part Interview Roundtable Part 2 – Michal Zak (read part 1 here) Michal Zak is a forty-nine year old Jewish resident of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam, a village with…
Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam
A Three Part Interview Part 1 – Howard Shippin “I live as If the future is now” Fifty-five families live in Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam situated along Isreal’s infamous green line.…