Saniya Lee Ghanoui is Publicity Manager for Public Books. In the fall, she will start her PhD in History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Saniya Lee Ghanoui
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Writing on Public Books
Who is General T?
By now the March 30, 2005 Powerball drawing seems to have taken on the workings of a tall tale: In a pot nearing $14 million, Powerball officials usually expect four to five second-place winners. This time, 110 players got five of the six numbers correct, winning anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000, depending on their original […]
The M Word—In Multiplex
We don’t know where the coy linguistic practice of using-while-not-using so-called offensive words by appending the term “word” after its initial letter and preceded by “the”—as in “the N-word”; “the C-word”; “the F-word”; “the R-word”—came from. The practice functions in spoken and written speech the way the “bleep” does on television. Everyone presumably knows what […]
