| Blog Name: | It's All Connected... |
| Url: | http://richardjnewman.com/about/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | literature and social justice, poetry and sex, writing and feminism |
| Description: | What I have to say, in no particular order, about literature and social justice; poetry and sex; translation and masculinity; Jewish identity and teaching; gender and Iran; writing and feminism--because it is, all of it, connected. |
| Popularity: | 18 Followers |
| Writing in this past Thursday’s issue of The New York Times (February 4th), Michael Kimmelman compares the European tour on which the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent the Tehran Symphony Orch... |
| Oy! So I was, with mild interest, reading over at Alas the conversation that was beginning to develop around the post written by Julie about J Street opening local chapters. I say “mild interest” b... |
| This is my constant refrain these days when it comes to current events in Iran: I wish I had time to do more than write this little bit and link to a couple of blog posts and articles worth reading... |
| Jeffrey Gettleman, in this New York Times article, writes about how three Evangelical Christians from the United States–Scott Lively (click here to read quotes from his talk in Uganda), Caleb Lee B... |
| 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... |
| 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, whi... |
| 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 Jo... |
| Fantasy On Trial (Again) | CarnalNationRead this post; it’s scary. Here’s an excerpt:The prosecution tried to get me to say that most people who fantasize are sick, which I wouldn’t. They tried to ... |
| One word: plagiarism. I spend a great deal of time at the beginning of the semester, on the first day actually, talking about it, explaining it and making sure my students understand my policy, whi... |
| Edited because of privacy issues.According to one of my students, in a paper he wrote meant to talk about the different approaches to history in Maxine Hong Kingston’s China Men and Island, edited ... |