Adnan Khan

  • What Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper can Learn From Each Other

    Besides loving church and hating science, the Prime Ministers of Australia and Canada have a lot in common—including awkward expense scandals.

  • Teju Cole is Way Better at Twitter Than You

    Teju Cole has gained notoriety as a champion of the artistic merits of Twitter. He has a series of tweets that are about as vital as any I’ve encountered, and has also spoken regularly about the impact Twitter will have on the novel.

  • Junot Diaz Says, Writing Is a Lot Like Basketball

    The best interviews are the ones when you can talk about girls, white supremacy, and video games. Junot Diaz is an authority on all those things.

  • I Tried to Celebrate Ramadan With a Bunch of Muslims I Don’t Know

    I’ve been feeling pretty down lately—I think living away from my family and friends in Toronto for about four years is finally starting to get to me. I wanted to feel part of something that felt like home and the Muslim Eid Festival seemed like the...

  • Australia, Is Tony Abbott The Better Choice?

    Abbott and Rudd call themselves leaders but you have no idea what you’re getting. As a young, brown, broke, inner city dude, the pundits say I’m inclined towards Rudd and Labor but this recent PNG hop over to the far right muddled up what was already...

  • Why the PNG Solution is What Australia Wants

    Being considered a bunch of pussies has long been Labor’s problem when dealing with the boats. When Howard began the public discourse by framing himself as a sort of Aussie Battler strongman, it was inevitable that the left were going to look like...