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Number of articles: 3
First Article: November 3, 2023
Latest Article: November 7, 2025
I started receiving the photos and videos not long after Zohran Mamdani ’14 was announced as the winner of New York City’s mayoral race. In one, a nine-year-old Pakistani American in Virginia leaps for joy, his mother desperately guarding the …
It’s an odd thing for a writer to come down against the idea of complexity.
Writing lives, as Adam Shatz observed, “in the verbs, not the nouns … in the distance, sometimes the chasm, between words and deeds.” Complicating a …
In 1980, Edward Said approached a New York publisher and suggested that they translate and publish the work of the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz. The publisher declined. “When I inquired why,” Said later wrote, “I was told (with no …
