Sublime

In a way I was just as inhibited as they were by my upbringing, which condemned me to a combination of boredom and desire.

Lafcadio Hearn’s Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan.

Most Americans know nothing about Asian Americans. They think Chinese is synecdoche for Asians the way Kleenex is for tissues. They don’t understand that we’re this tenuous alliance of many nationalities. There are so many qualifications weighing the “we” in Asian America. Do I mean Southeast Asian, South Asian, East Asian, and Pacific Islander, qu

On September 11, 2001, a week and a half after school started, I learned I was as far from home as I could be and still be within the United States. On September 12, I watched my Pakistani neighbors plaster their Corollas with I LOVE THE U.S.A. bumper stickers and dress their newborn in a red, white, and blue outfit I’d seen at Marshalls. I didn’t

He was fat. He wore jogging suits. He wore a medallion and gold chains. And the unforgivable of unforgivables, he had processed hair. The white media, perhaps not consciously, said, “We’re going to promote this guy because we can point up the ridiculousness and paucity of black leadership.” Al understood precisely what they were doing, precisely. A

Julia Kristeva, Ishiguro, Moacyr Scliar, Magris, Semprun, Baricco, Updike

Mince, élégant, affectionnant à la manière américaine des cols amidonnés blancs sur des chemises à fines rayures, bon vivant, volontiers gastronome, amateur de londrès et de cocktails, fréquentant les bars anglais et se frottant volontiers au Tout-Paris, il affichait des idées avancées qu’il soutenait avec juste ce qu’il fallait de condescendance e