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October 23, 2018
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Tennis, Anyone?

Obsession and regression

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 30, 2017

Memories of Jazz Nights

You needed stamina, but the payoff was great

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 23, 2017

Valentines Past

If only I’d had the nerve …

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 16, 2017

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, June 02, 2017

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 26, 2017

A Visit to Harvard

And a surprise encounter with Dr. Johnson

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 19, 2017

Remembering Cynthia Macdonald

Poet, teacher, opera singer, psychoanalyst, and friend

by Phillip Lopate | Thursday, May 11, 2017

Marrying a Widow

Or, my spectral predecessor

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, May 05, 2017

Baldwin the Prophet vs. Baldwin the Writer

Can a film really capture the essence of both?

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, April 28, 2017

Listening to Dinah

The complexity of “Don’t Explain”

by Phillip Lopate | Friday, April 21, 2017
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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

Misinformation in Myanmar

by Stephanie Bastek

News reports this past week revealed that hundreds of military personnel in Myanmar used fake Facebook pages and false news to stoke fear of the country’s Muslim minority, the Rohingya. But as journalist Francis Wade told our podcast, Smarty Pants, this kind of propagandizing is nothing new. Politicians and generals have been planting the seeds of genocide for decades, likening the Rohingya to “fleas” and “dogs,” offering sympathetic commentary about Hitler’s extermination of the Jews, and funding programs for prisoners and the homeless to populate pop-up Buddhist “villages” in Rakhine State, where the Rohingya people have lived. You can listen to our interview with Wade, who traces the tangled web of interests behind the systemic violence against the Rohingya, here.