Browsing Category Ideas
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Ideas 1
Meeting President Obama: A Farewell to Representation
This article is being published in collaboration with the Kennedy School Review. One day last fall, at a small campus in the heart of New England, I stood ...
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Ideas 0
Dismantling Communication—Literally
A friend was telling me about a particularly awkward experience recently—which I will not share here, except to remind you that coffee is indeed a diuretic—when she happened ...
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Culture 2
Love in a Cup
“I’ll have a chai,” I say. “You mean a chai tea latte?” my barista asks. There is a long, uncomfortable pause that she doesn’t seem to notice. “Fine,” ...
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Craft and Career 0
Speak Up, I’m Eavesdropping
I put it off as long as I could. Covered up, as people do; smiled and nodded. Finally I gave in and went to an audiologist. She sat ...
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Counterpose 0
The Fatwa on Chess
Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority, Grand Mufti Abdulaziz al-Sheikh, last week put a fatwa on chess in advance of a tournament scheduled to be held in the ...
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Ideas
Aphorisms for a Lonely Planet
It is easier to photosynthesize than to say I’m sorry. What we lack possesses us. A side of sad gives joy its curious twang. To go far enough ...
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Conversations
Oliver Sacks: A Hero’s Journey
ZEITGEIST On a sunny day in an outdoor cafe in mid-August, I found myself thoroughly absorbed in Oliver Sacks’s memoir, On the Move: A Life, sometimes laughing out ...
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Comics 0
Esperantists
"Intimate relationships in Esperanto? ... Yes... there's been some ... exploration" ...
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Ideas
Congo: the Story of One Family’s Endurance
The tragedies in the Congo brought to focus in the most personal, human way ...
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Deep End 0
Lucky Jews
Few Jews now live in Poland, but their existence as hand-carved miniatures rolls on. Erica Lehrer explores the cultural dimensions of these figurines. ...
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Ideas 2
Living with Pain: The Desert Fathers and Mothers, the Hindu Festival of Thaipusam, and the New York City Marathon
In Singapore my husband and I took our children to Thaipusam, a Tamil religious festival. Hindu penitents carry milk jugs, impale themselves with fishhooks, and walk two miles ...
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Deep End
Losing Translation to the Marketplace of Ideas
Something is keeping books from abroad scarce, even as the margins and flexibility afforded by e-books make publishing risks lower than they’ve ever been ...
