Once Upon a Retelling: Beauty by Robin McKinley

A classic, but personally unsatisfactory, retelling of Beauty & the Beast with no bad guys.

Posted by
Wen Wen
June 28, 2009

Weekend Romp: Dinner and a Movie

As a New Yorker, I find it quite natuaral to be generally cynical about most things. This is perhaps why I found my adventure last night so off-putting. Everything was just a little bit too sweet.
It started with Eatery (798 Ninth Ave., at 53rd St.), one of those neon-sign-in-a-hip-way New American joints that line 9th [...]

Writing on the Arab World: So You Want a Revolution?

A Starbucks Karnak Café is not. It is a coffee house in the true, Enlightenment sense. Set in Egypt in 1967, the regulars in Naguib Mahfouz’s Karnak Café discuss life and politics unendingly. There is, however, one, rather obvious difference between Karnak and other coffee houses.
 Large numbers of the Karnak-goers disappear sporadically. The narrator, who has a [...]

Posted by
kquenzer
June 22, 2009

Back-to-Bom: Revisiting Rushdie, “Midnight’s Children” in Conversation

*Part I of a Series on Indian Literature and Non-Fiction

Posted by
Mallika Narain
June 22, 2009

Personal Appeal: Dear Aaron Sorkin

Dear Aaron Sorkin,
I have recently rewatched all 7 seasons of The West Wing and I have come to the dramatic and regretful conclusion that you are an ass. After 4 seasons of writing one of the most well-regarded and rewarded television show in history, you leave. You leave without having given your writers a legitimate [...]

Posted by
cmcginn
June 17, 2009

Campo Executive Chef gets Chopped

Around Columbia, the Italian restaurant Campo may be known primarily for its drink specials, but the Morningside mainstay has a new claim to fame thanks to Executive Chef David Rotter, who finished second on tonight’s 10 p.m. season premiere of the Food Network reality series Chopped.
The judges were consistently impressed with Rotter’s creativity, but ultimately, [...]

Posted by
Christine Jordan
June 16, 2009