It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.
Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.
I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
I’m convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring, and I was dancing with younger dancers.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
A woman accepted anything from life and made it the best; a man bargained for the better but also the less perfect.
Does marriage have such a revolutionary power that a long-established habit can be overthrown in such a short time?
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.
Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Vegetarian and frugal it may be, but the chickpea is one of the most versatile ingredients you could keep in your cupboards.
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
