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Peacekeepers on Trial

"How U.N. blue-helmets get disciplined." A Slate Explainer.

Procrasti-NATION

"Workers of the world, slack off!"

Un-bylined, but I did about thirty interviews for this feature on "the procrastination rituals of everyone from cattle ranchers to CIA agents," part of Slate's special theme package.

all i want

From FFFFOUND!, my new favorite webstop.

Ledbetter Blues

I took a turn writing the Today's Blogs column for Slate. Topics covered: the Republicans' attack on the equal-pay bill, Jeremiah Wright's latest TV appearance, and Wesley Snipes' friends.

Adventures in the Yale Art Department

Two blog posts about the Aliza Shvartz abortion-art controversy at Yale, for Slate's XX Factor.

No Fear Shakespeare Comix (finally!)

I've been meaning to post about this series for a while, but I'd been waiting till Spark Publishing put up some kind of splashy advertisement on its homepage ... I'm still hoping that'll happen, but in the meantime, I just saw that Neil Babra posted a fascinating essay about his experiences working on the Hamlet edition (pictured here), so I figured, what the hell.


I took over as series editor of the No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels sometime in the middle of the first book's development, and saw them through their completion this past fall. The three books in the series--Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth--are based on SparkNotes' insanely popular No Fear Shakespeare series, and each was drawn by a different, incredibly talented cartoonist. (Here's a link to Matt Wiegle talking about Romeo, and here's Ken Hoshine's homepage.) 

I'm prouder of this series than almost anything else I've been involved with, and I think they are truly beautiful, phenomenal books. You can find them in the Shakespeare section of your local B&N, or online here.