Other Things Going On
I'm aware that it's over a year since I posted anything to this blog. The explanation has a lot to do with Trump, teaching and small »
White Tears US Tour: Spring 2017
During March and April, I'll be in various cities, reading from and talking about White Tears. Hope to see you at one of these dates. Tuesday, »
Slavoj Žižek on the Refugee Crisis, with Hari Kunzru
Žižek's new book is said to be 'his most focused and urgent yet'. I wasn't so sure about that when I interviewed him at the Brooklyn »
The Obama Legacy (2016)
Expectations were sky high when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. As his term draws to a close, has he disappointed or delivered? From race »
Trump and the End of Politics (2016)
We see this man who looks as if he has been sculpted out of a block of Gouda cheese, and we hear the roar of acclaim, »