Categories On Books and Publishing Updates The Mother of All Updates Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date June 29, 2016 Continue reading “The Mother of All Updates”
Categories On Books and Publishing Politics Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date May 25, 2016 Anthropology as a discipline has always been rooted in imperialism. Continue reading “Review of Anthropology’s Politics: Disciplining the Middle East, in Electronic Intifada”
Categories On Books and Publishing My Review of Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, in Current Affairs Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date April 6, 2016 In other words, Gilbert, who has spent half her life as a professional writer, now believes that hers is simply a vocation. Continue reading “My Review of Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert, in Current Affairs”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing Room: From Novel to Film Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date March 18, 2016 Call me a classicist, but years of reading novels tells me when something is off. Continue reading “Room: From Novel to Film”
Categories Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing All Those Mad, Mag Feels Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date March 17, 2016 Excerpt: Even as a kid, I loved that first, heady rush of anticipation I experienced with every one of them. Continue reading “All Those Mad, Mag Feels”
Categories Feminism On Books and Publishing Race, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date March 8, 2016 The problem here is that greed is situated as an emotional and cultural value, rather than as what it is: a structural component of capitalism. Read more “The Feminist Utopia Project Isn’t Utopian Just Yet”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free. Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 26, 2016 You’re not doing it for the money, but you’re making it impossible for me to earn a living. Continue reading “I’m a Freelance Writer. I Refuse to Work for Free.”
Categories Capitalism, Class, Inequality On Books and Publishing The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date February 24, 2016 Excerpt: What is it about writing that we don’t see it as something that deserves compensation as labour? And why do we think that it’s okay to pay millionaires and billionaires with our labor instead of demanding that they pay us? Continue reading “The Irony of Writing About Poverty On Medium”
Categories On Books and Publishing Politics Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date November 4, 2015 “We ought to complicate academic freedom even as we vigorously defend it.” Continue reading “Review of Steven Salaita’s Uncivil Rites”
Categories On Books and Publishing Politics My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad Post author By Yasmin Nair Post date August 21, 2015 This is a dense and densely argued book, in the best way. Continue reading “My Review of Joseph Massad’s Islam in Liberalism in Electronic Intifdad”
