Muashra

I suspect every high school student in America has read F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, usually in some tedious 10th grade English class, one of those “important” books you never think of...

The year 1984 has come and gone, but the work of British author George Orwell (1903 – 1950) lives on. Like Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece movie, 2001, the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four did not quite predict accurately what was...

I was lucky enough to live in Rome in the late 1960s for nearly two years, city of eternal magic. I had a job as an assistant director in the movies – a gopher,...

If you know Honolulu, you will probably know the name Keo Sananikone, king of Thai cuisine in Hawaii. Keo, who holds a degree in architecture from the University of Washington, opened his first Honolulu...

History has witnessed many different kinds of revolution, bloody and tame, but never quite anything like the “Velvet Revolution” that took place in Czechoslovakia beginning in the mid-1960s with the “Prague Spring,” a premature...

In Mad magazine years ago there used to be a running cartoon called “Spy Vs. Spy,” the adventures of a white spy versus a black spy who spent a page or so in each...

Either you love it, or you hate it. Sushi, that is. Raw fish, seaweed, sticky rice, soy sauce, and wasabi. I have a brother-in-law from the Midwest who positively gags at the very thought...

In 1965, Kenneth Rexroth poet, translator, painter, and guiding angel to the Beat Generation brought out a slim volume of translations, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (ISBN: 0-8112-0370-0) that soon became a huge...