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The stuff of nightmares for 21st century kids

My 12-year-old supports Barack Obama, and after the Democratic National Convention I expected euphoria, but he surprised me. "Actually," he said, "Schwarzenegger is the one I really want for president." "What? You want the Terminator in the Oval Office? ...

From ALLEGRA GOODMAN, International Herald Tribune,  9 Sep 2008

So, you want to be a writer?

. .. Beware! Beware! Her flashing eyes, her floating hair! Weave a circle round her thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For she on honey-dew hath fed, and drunk the milk of Paradise. When people hear that ...

From ALLEGRA GOODMAN, International Herald Tribune,  13 Aug 2008

Preeta Samarasan's 'Evening Is the Whole Day'

What can fiction offer in this age of instant messaging and quick downloads? Search and click: far away locales zoom into focus on the computer screen, along with helpful links to rental cars. News, history, travel blogs await. And yet all the ...

From ALLEGRA GOODMAN, International Herald Tribune,  28 Jul 2008

What Aasha Saw

What can fiction offer in this age of instant messaging and quick downloads? Search and click: far away locales zoom into focus on the computer screen, along with helpful links to rental cars. News, history, travel blogs await. And yet all the ...

From ALLEGRA GOODMAN, The New York Times,  25 Jul 2008

Forget Kenya and Kansas, black and white. To understand Obama, understand this: The man is Hawaiian.

My fifth grade classroom at Punahou, a private school in Honolulu founded by nineteenth-century Congregational ministers, was on the third floor of Castle Hall, in an airy room with big windows that Mrs. Hefty covered with blackout curtains when she ...

From ALLEGRA GOODMAN, The New Republic,  31 Jan 2008

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