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Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.

Long ago, when I was in higher secondary school in Delhi, I read an essay by George Orwell in which he said there was a voice in his head that put into words everything he was seeing. I realised I...

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In the U.S., the FBI or the people I met from the Department of Justice might be ignorant about Islam or about the East more generally, but I felt they were less willing to make blanket judgments about Muslims. This...

You ask a politician a question, like, why they ran in an election, and you'll hear, I assume, something about wanting to contribute to the community or bring about social justice. I had no such high goals.

A character takes shape in the act of writing. You start with something, and you add or subtract.

I identify in some measure with each of my characters.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

We take literature too seriously.

Hemingway's short story 'Hills Like White Elephants' is a classic of its kind. It illustrates Hemingway's 'iceberg theory,' which requires that a story find its effectiveness by hiding more than it reveals.

Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way.

I'm generalizing wildly, but academic books find safety in explanations that reduce the chaos of social life.

To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.

I like listening to Garrison Keillor's 'The Writer's Almanac' with my daughter.

The radio stations will happily recycle a badly worded statement by a politician all day but will steer clear of broadcasting more than once or twice a poem by Tomas Transtromer or Rita Dove.

In 1997, Alain de Botton published his book 'How Proust Can Change Your Life.' I was charmed by it. I remember using it in a course on cultural criticism for a graduate class that had a mix of theorists and...

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

In academe, we ought to temper our criticism of the idea of self-help because, in a more complex way, it is precisely what we offer our students through our teaching.

While I ridicule books of self-help, I'm also quite susceptible to them. They help simplify things.

A wonderful innovation of the Occupy Wall Street movement was the use of the human microphone - the name given to the body of the audience repeating, amplifying, each statement made by the speaker.

Everything in American public life, when it comes to race relations, serves as a frame for a history of violence and degrading humiliation.

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