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| 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 |
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The Tehran Symphony Orchestra in Geneva and Richard Taruskin’s “Common Fallacy”
| 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... |
J Street and Poetry and Jewish Politics and Jewish Poets and Jewish Poetics and Holocaust Trivializa
| 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... |
Tehran University professor Massoud Alimohammadi assassinated in Iran
| 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... |
Evangelical Christians Are Shocked–Shocked, I Tell You!–To Find Out Their Anti-Gay Rhetoric Migh
| 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... |
“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... |
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, whi... |
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 Jo... |
Fantasy On Trial (Again) | CarnalNation
| 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 ... |
Why I Hate Grading Papers — Part 2
| 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... |
Why I Hate Grading Papers
| 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 ... |
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