Andrew Marantz is a writer living in Brooklyn. He blogs sporadically at culturemedium.wordpress.com.

Blog Entries by Andrew Marantz

Out of Arabia: Obama Speaks, India's Muslims Listen

1 Comments | Posted June 7, 2009 | 10:41 AM (EST)


NEW DELHI -- In his Cairo speech, President Obama made reference to seventeen Muslim-majority countries. He also spent a lot of time discussing a country where Muslims are a minority: his own. But he did not mention, at least not by name, one nation that Muslims have called home for...

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We Tell Each Other Stories In Order To Live

2 Comments | Posted May 1, 2009 | 06:23 PM (EST)


Last night, The Moth's musician was late. Not that they really needed a musician--his only job was to noodle when a performer's time was up, a role that could have been relegated to a CD player or a tap on the shoulder--still, the musician is part of the Moth schtick,...

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