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Hanif's 'Exploding Mangoes' - comic conspiracies

At some point growing up I had an epiphany: The lies I told were always better, safer, if I added an odd detail or two. If I was going to lie about spending the night at Katie's, I might as well add that their calico climbed up into the microwave in ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, San Francisco Chronicle,  1 Jun 2008

Hanif's 'Exploding Mangoes' - comic conspiracies

At some point growing up I had an epiphany: The lies I told were always better, safer, if I added an odd detail or two. If I was going to lie about spending the night at Katie's, I might as well add that their calico climbed up into the microwave in ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 May 2008

The Flight To Cosmic Realism: Novels In A Post-Print World

Words have become too self-conscious, too anxious, to sit still on the page. In a world blaring with YouTube videos and buzzing with blog posts, there is, especially in fiction, an apparent need to justify the extended use of text. Why write a story ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  12 May 2008

Lewis Lapham Just Can't Help Himself

In Philip Roth's latest book, Exit Ghost, Amy Bellette has to be hauled out of the New York Public Library kicking and screaming. Her lover, the fictional writer E.I. Lonoff, isn't represented among a display of America's best authors, and Bellette is ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  18 Feb 2008

The 'Lapham's' Index

In many ways this issue is central to Lewis Lapham, the legendary former editor of Harper's. In 2006, Lapham carped to a newspaper interviewer that in American universities, if a text doesn't reach "a politically correct standard on one or more of [the ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  15 Feb 2008

Hillary Endorses

You must be logged-in to comment. Not a subscriber? Click here to get a digital or print and digital subscription to The New Republic! Ugh, I'm going to smack you.  In some kind of virtual sense.   Am I taking crazy pills, or is that is the most ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  12 Feb 2008

Politics in our Genes?

You must be logged-in to comment. Not a subscriber? Click here to get a digital or print and digital subscription to The New Republic! ha. What fluff!. So many other factors take precedence and we're only beginning to grapple with workable theories ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  11 Feb 2008

What Women Like

Women voters matter, as this NPR blog post says. And “women will stay undecided about their vote longer than men.... [T]hey won’t base it on a party line vote, but much more on a likability factor.” As a woman, that quote makes me wince. I don’t know ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  29 Jan 2008

The Politics of H Bomb

Suited boy: I think I might have to go to Obama to get some of the more looser girls. Boy with black fleece and not exactly bowl-cut, but maybe tea-cup cut: My answer to that is… you’re going to find fewer people like that working for ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  14 Jan 2008

Inevitability Defeats Itself: Obama Isn’t Going to Go Skip, Skip, Skip, King Me!*

These lines are moving, but maybe they hit the wrong note. With them, Obama posited himself as the unshakeable frontrunner the same way Hillary had posited herself before Iowa. Maybe New Hampshire tells us that voters don’t want to feel ...

From FRANCESCA MARI, The New Republic,  9 Jan 2008

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