There was a period a few years ago when I was posting memorials so often that I started to feel as if my blog was turning into an obituary ...

July is racing by. I was wondering when the brutal summer heat would finally appear and today, it settled on our doorsteps. I no longer gal...

More photos from my stint as a Senior Fellow at Image Text Ithaca . You can find out more about this year's excellent program here . ...

I'm currently at Image Text Ithaca , an extraordinary weeklong immersion in art-text collaboration at Ithaca College (organized by Cath...

Last night marked the last and final leg of my launch of Counternarratives. At McNally Jackson Bookstore  in Manhattan, I read and particip...

In this March 23, 2010, photo, President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington....

The behemoth strikes again. By behemoth, I mean Amazon , the global retailing corporation that also is the world's largest bookstore ,...

No sanctuary in this society, it seems, none. Not in our homes, not in the streets, not behind the wheel, not in a store, not in public swi...