Could Have Doing More to Clarify
...it suggested that anything I do is other than wholly perfect. But after a bit of reflection, I don’t have much cause to complain. After all, if I'm annoyed that...
The Changing Faces of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
...a bit artificial. There’s scientistic sensibility about it in the inclination to objectively create a world by saying, “Okay I want this element and that element and these are the...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol 20
...have “a bit of a belly.” I took this description as meaning I had a bit too much of a belly rather than being in possession of only a small...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 12
...time for a little philosophy, a bit of cosmic Q & A. Who knows, we might finally get answers to some of the big questions we’ve always had, like “What...
Private Pornography
...kind of theory? About patterns in culture, gender, sexuality, shame, desire... everything really. There are many writers in your stories, self-professed; could you talk a little bit about that? Sontag...
Ambitious Conditions: Taiye Selasi's "Ghana Must Go"
...failure, failure for people for whom failure is not an option. The family at the center of Ghana Must Go reminds me a bit of the Royal Tenenbaums—or, really, J.D....
"Flowers in the Attic" Is the Best Book Ever* And Here Is Why
...safe” thing is complicated just a bit by the wee matter of consent. Chris and Cathy’s major sexual interlude begins as such: … “You’re mine, Cathy! Mine! You’ll always...
The Floral Is the Political
...an obsession with people because they think all they have to do it to look inside. And I’m saying, come on, you have to do a bit more work....
How to Talk About the Weather
...a bit foreign. In a lot of the developing world, the most important environmentalist struggles have always been about certain cultural communities trying to defend their means of subsistence: their...
The Lives of Others
...reappear here, as does a lovely 2003 Times profile of the radio host Delilah, with minimal revision. This is a weird bit of scrapbooking for a new hardcover that isn’t...
Black President
...he was compelled to do something. I mean he was treated as a traitor and a threat. His otherness also revolved around his Catholicism quite a bit. There’s never been...
Unsolicited Advice for Living in the End Times, Vol. 14
...religion, just barely, but I get a bit queasy when the hocus pocus and the voodoo parts kick in. Speaking of queasy, let’s talk foreskin and the lack of it....
Stalker/Zona
...who insist that at some level commentary can turn out to be every bit as original as the primary work of the novelist." Other writers have entire books that fit...
Our Star Wars Holiday Special
...wrote his own version of it, and it’s exactly the innocent and dumb bit of fun that it was supposed to be. This is also why the prequels were so...
Beauty Work and Intrinsic Motivation
...common—and useful—bit of advice in this arena is to not focus so much on the weight loss bit, even if you are interested in reducing your body fat, because it's...
Search Terms
...I would draw: A huge part of Americanah is set in Nigeria, for example, while Behold the Dreamers is completely set in the US. Like Sefi Atta’s A Bit of...