Joshua Cohen is a showoff and throwback. Released this June, his latest novel “The Netanyahus” opens with one of those delirious juggling acts of a paragraph that demands to be quoted at length: My name is Ruben Blum and I’m an, yes, an historian. Soon enough, though, I guess I’ll be historical. By which I [...]
Read MoreBerlin Marathon 2018 (Wikimedia Commons / C. Suthorn) As much as I wish I could say I enjoy running, the idea of voluntarily subjecting myself to shortness of breath for a long period of time is hardly appealing. For the burgeoning Chinese middle-class, however, distance running is the newest fad to grace the country. The [...]
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Anthony Ramos as Usnavi and Mellissa Barrera as Vanessa in "In the Heights." (Warner Bros./Macall Polay) “In the Heights” is a film of contradictions. It is an ode to Washington Heights, the Manhattan neighborhood above 155th street, yet its characters struggle with the desire to break free from their home. It is both a celebration [...]
Read MoreEveryone in my algebra class pulled their desks away from me as if I was toxic — I became an island in the middle of the room. After 45 minutes of humiliation, my self-perception would never be the same. That was the first bad day I had ever had simply because I am Asian. In [...]
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Emory University has received numerous research awards and grants this year, including an award from the Lupus Research Alliance and grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The University has also engaged in research for treatments and vaccines against COVID-19. The Wheel has provided summaries of significant developments from the past few months. Whitehead [...]
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