This isn’t going to be the comparative review I’d like to piece together (I’m short on time, without an internet connection, and without copies of either book), but if I don’t write something now I probably never will. I first discovered Ta-Nehisi’s blog thanks to @cbra...

It's funny how pop culture goes from controversial to nontroversial so quickly that we never really see the pivot point. And it does it even without anything changing, necessarily, except time. Shakespeare's dirty jokes are far, far filthier than any language on network television, and yet results i...

Earlier this week, I was taking the A train home, reading my Kindle, when a man sat next to me saying, “Well I’ll be damned” or something very much like that. It was his first sighting of the e-book reader “in the wild,” and he wanted to ask me about it. Having just rec...

I don't know why I have to be part of this. I didn't want to, I think the world of her ... I still do. The whole thing is just some kind of Right Wing tempest In a lukewarm teapot, and I think left alone, it would have all blown over. But then Ta-nehisi started in on the whole integrity thing, sayin...