Why Writers Write the Crazy Books They Write
Why writers write what they write is an endlessly interesting topic, or at least it is to those of us who spend our lives writing.
Why writers write what they write is an endlessly interesting topic, or at least it is to those of us who spend our lives writing.
Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011
On the day the governor of Arizona, Jan Brewer, signed an outrageous immigration law, I was at the JFK airport in New York about to embark on a one-mo...
AP | ANGELA DOLAND | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or ...
Bernard-Henri Lévy | Posted 05.25.2011
If Claude Levi-Strauss left us a lesson, it was simply that the word "identity" applies to subjects, not to communities; it can be used in the plural, never in the singular.
Scott Atran | Posted 11.17.2011
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.
Claudia Ricci | Posted 08.19.2011