Science
New Technology Could End The Debate Over Pipeline Safety
Who could have ever imagined that North America would surpass Saudi Arabia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas liquids? A decade ……Read More
Lifestyle
Immigration
The “Octopus” Tries to Expand Immigration
The August edition of Harper’s Magazine has an excellent article by Rebecca Solnit in the “Easy Chair” column of the magazine entitled, “The Octopus and Its Grandchildren”. As ……Read More
Immigration
If DHS Won’t Enforce Immigration Law, Maybe the Competition Will
Given the all-too-relaxed way that the Department of Homeland Security enforces immigration law, maybe we can look to competing, private sector actors to do the ……Read More
Immigration
American Immigration Council Floats a Petition to Sway the President on Executive Amnesty
Honest disclosure No. 1: Before I began this blog, I promised the lawyer who made me aware of the subject matter that I wouldn’t make ……Read More
Books
How To Separate Mediocre, Good, and Great Stories in Translation
Translator Max Shmookler, who is currently co-editing a collection of Sudanese short stories with ArabLit contributor Raphael Cormack, explores the tension between what Sudanese readers think is a great story ……Read More
Books
Maya Abu Hayyat and Christine de Luca ‘In Love,’ and the Success of ‘A Bird is Not a Stone’
Dalya Alberge, writing in The Guardian, asserted Saturday that there is a “mini-boom” in literature translated into English. It’s hard to say if that’s the case — Alberge ……Read More