Books
From Buddha to Adam
By Hirsh SawhneyAfter first reading Hanif Kureishi’s new novel The Body, I thought it to be an anomaly in a career marked by iconoclastic writing. After all, the book is a work of science fiction and at times it reads like a thriller.
In Conversation
Ben Greenman with Darin Strauss
In the hardback, there’s a story about an artist who makes copies of things like restaurant menus and phone book pages, and then alters a tiny bit of information. That was how I changed it: it’s slightly different, and at the same time entirely different.
Off the Shelves: Politics They Live
By Eleanor J. BaderThose who believe that women and people of color are inherently progressive need only read Laura Flanders’s Bushwomento be disabused. This entertaining and enraging text lambastes female leaders whose policies adversely impact poor and working-class communities as well as stymie efforts to legislate social equity.
