I Am My Own Wife

I started with Darkness at Noon , published in 1941, set in the 1930s during Stalin's purges. It's beautifully written and thought...

character map While snapping this picture on her gifted-and-talented phone, my student accidentally cut off Margaret Kochamma (and dead ...

I've been watching Bollywood movies on Netflix for the past couple of weeks. I cannot get through a single movie in a night, but that...

Once again, I will not be supporting the GoldieBlox company , in spite of its stated goal to "break down gender stereotypes." In w...

I did my first tweet ever for # AcWriMo . My kid is breaking the first of her 2-year molars (bottom left, and she's 2 1/2). We were th...

This morning, I'm in the kitchen putting lunches together for me and the kid, and I hear her yell from her crib, "MAMA! I WANT A BO...

In a charmingly clear essay called "The Intentional Fallacy," which I am preparing to teach to my Literary Theory class this week,...