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What Makes a Muslim Poet?
Thursday November 13, 2008
When the current issue of Image came in the mail, what first caught my eye in the table of contents was the name Khaled Mattawa. The name and his contributor’s bio (mentioning translations of Arabic poetry) made me think he might be Muslim. This piqued....
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The Agony and the Ecstasy, or Why I Cried on Election Day
Wednesday November 12, 2008
The first time was during a Today Show piece about moving a young family into the White House: an image of the Obamas onstage at the convention last August, arms linked or maybe raised triumphantly, the voiceover describing how Sasha and Malia were excited about getting to redecorate their bedrooms. It was all very sweet....
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The Mad Men Season 2 Finale
Tuesday November 11, 2008
If you haven’t yet seen “Meditations in an Emergency,” the Mad Men Season 2 finale, this article will most certainly spoil you. But then again, why haven’t you already seen the finale? It’s been over a week! For a background to the show....
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Being Charlie Kaufman
Monday November 10, 2008
Charlie Kaufman sits at the table in the conference room of the Hotel Monaco in downtown Seattle, bowing his head, all ten fingers in his mop of dark hair. He doesn't say anything. Neither do I. Neither do the other two journalists at the table, who are recording all this silence for an Amazon.com podcast. “I'm trying,” says Kaufman....
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40
Friday November 7, 2008
No doubt I wasn’t the only one in America on Election Night who had this thought, but still, so resonant was the effect that it felt like a revelation all my own: with uncanny biblical equivalence, exactly 40 years had passed—not 39, not 41, or, for that matter....
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