Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 16, 2024It's basically impossible to parody the modern right. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
- Untitled May 15, 2024Two of the most common complaints I get about my cartoons: 1) You left something out! 2) You use way too many words.
- Untitled May 15, 2024The Six Kinds of Republican #PoliCartoon
- Untitled May 15, 2024I think part of what's going on is that some people always like an excuse to be mean yet think of themselves as virtuous. (Happens on all sides, btw.) But another reason - particularly wrt Gaza - is that we feel helpless. We're stuck in "this is so horrible, I must do SOMETHING! But what?" […]
- Untitled May 15, 2024Regarding the new Hillel survey of Jewish college students, I can't find anything about their sampling methodology. But in Hillel's sample, Jews are 50% moderate or conservative. That would make Jewish undergrads far to the right of US Jews in general.
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Category Archives: literature
Three Poems Up on Poets For Living Waters
I am late publicizing the fact that three of my poems, “Like This,” “Free Radicals” and “Empty Rhetoric,” were published on Poets for Living Waters. Here is “Free Radicals:” Rowboats on the pond: random particles dancing to laws they couldn’t … Continue reading
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"Men's Books" Don't Sell
Working on the “Fragments of Evolving Manhood” series has pretty much convinced me that I want to give the book on manhood and masculinity that I started writing in the 1980s another try. It will be, obviously, a very different … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Investigating the Scope of Persian/Iranian Literatures
42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) April 7-10, 2011 New Brunswick, NJ – Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution: Rutgers University Keynote Speaker: Junot Diaz This panel welcomes papers on any aspect of Persian/Iranian literature, of any time period, … Continue reading
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Translating Classical Persian Literature: Introducing Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh – Part 1
Often called the national epic of Iran, the Shahnameh or Book of Kings, was written in the 10th century CE by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, who took as his subject the pre-Islamic history of the Iranian people, starting with the creation of … Continue reading
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Norouz Pirouz! Eid Moborak! Happy Iranian New Year!
It is Norouz, the Persian New Year, which is celebrated far and wide throughout what used to be the Persian Empire, and I thought I would share with you the section of Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, often called the … Continue reading
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Transparency versus Stained Glass in Prose and in Comics
Gonzo: I’m going to Bombay, India, to become a movie star! Fozzie Bear: You don’t go to Bombay to become a movie star. You go where we’re going: Hollywood! Gonzo: Sure, if you want to do it the easy way! … Continue reading
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Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat, June 22 – 27, 2010
If you’re an Asian American poet, you should consider applying for this retreat. Kundiman does great work. Here’s a basic description: In order to help mentor the next generation of Asian-American poets, Kundiman is sponsoring an annual Poetry Retreat at … Continue reading
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"The Myths of Liberal Zionism," by Yitzhak Laor – I want to read this book
Writing in the January issue of Harper’s Magazine, Joshua Cohen wrote this at the end of his review of Laor’s book: It often seems that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just […] a textual problem. If so, then the muddle of … Continue reading
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Translating Classical Persian Poetry: Why Retranslate Attar's "Ilahi-Nama?"
Farid Al-Din Attar is one of the most important writers in the Persian canon. Not only is he a major poet in his own right, but his work offers crucial insight into Sufi thought and experience, while prefiguring other important … Continue reading
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Translating Classical Persian Poetry: Farid al-Din Attar's "Ilahi-Nama"
One of eight major works that can reliably be ascribed to Attar, Ilahi-Nama (Book of God or, sometimes, Divine Book) has, according to Encyclopedia Iranica, been translated once into English, by John A. Boyle in 1976, and once into French, … Continue reading
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