by Myronn Hardy
I watch a woman sift through
kidney beans pulling dark stones
from the piles of red in her hands. I
take a sip of water from the bottle my
American stomach weakest of all…
Archive for March, 2011
The Dirty River Between Us
Posted By Zócalo On March 23, 2011Heart and Home
Posted By Zócalo On March 23, 2011
by Sara Mengesha
I was 9 years old when I discovered that Saudi Arabia, where I had lived since birth, wasn’t a place where I’d be allowed to stay. My mother and father were born in Eritrea and Ethiopia, respectively, and they met in Sudan over thirty years ago. Later, they moved to Riyadh, where my siblings and I were born. My father worked as an engineer and an architect, my mother as a registered nurse…
Susan Jacoby
Posted By Zócalo On March 22, 2011
Susan Jacoby is a secularist social commentator and author of Never Say Die: The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age. Before visiting Zócalo to discuss the need to come to grips with the realities of aging more honestly, she answered a few questions in our Green Room.
Not Evil. Yet.
Posted By Zócalo On March 22, 2011
The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry)
By Siva Vaidhyanathan
–Reviewed by Jake de Grazia
Google has taken the colossal tangle of sometimes-useful information that makes up the Internet and organized it for us. We, accordingly, love Google. For the search tool that does that magical organizing. For Gmail and Google Maps. For Google Documents and Google Analytics. And for the dozens of other free services Google provides. In Siva Vaidhyanathan’s words, “Google puts previously unimaginable resources at our fingertips – huge libraries, archives, warehouses of government records, troves of goods, the comings and goings of whole swaths of humanity.” …
FRA ANGELICO
Posted By Zócalo On March 21, 2011
by Hilary Sideris
The friar-preacher of Fiesole,
known in the world as Guido,
could have been a cardinal
had he desired to crush & baffle
underlings. May our priests
today learn from this angel-man, …
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