Sheluyang Peng

2 weeks ago | tabletmag.com | Sheluyang Peng

“Where’s the Semen?” Such was the provocative question headline posed by Jesse Tisch in this magazine’s review of the then-forthcoming Philip Roth: The Biography. The biographer in question was Blake Bailey, who had honed his writer-writing-about-writers skills by penning biographies of the writers Richard Yates, John Cheever, and Charles Jackson. Bailey had extensively interviewed Roth and had exclusive access to the Roth archives.

Nov 26, 2024 | providencemag.com | Sheluyang Peng

Sociology professor Samuel Perry’s new book Religion for Realists: Why We All Need the Scientific Study of Religion isn’t the first time a Protestant intellectual has attempted to articulate a “realist” view on religion.

Nov 19, 2024 | americanaffairsjournal.org | Sheluyang Peng

One day in the early 2000s, a goth teenager by the name of Sohrab Ahmari was perusing the shelves of a Salt Lake City bookstore when his gaze landed upon Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra. For a misfit atheist adolescent looking for meaning in life outside the bleak conditions of the majority-Mormon trailer park he resided in, the encounter turned out to be love at first sight.

Oct 31, 2024 | aaronrenn.com | Sheluyang Peng

This is a guest post by Sheluyang Peng. There’s an old joke that goes “Nobody will win the battle of the sexes. There’s just too much fraternizing with the enemy.” In feminist writer Ruth Whippman’s new book BoyMom: Reimagining Boyhood in the Age of Impossible Masculinity (2024), she doesn’t just fraternize with the “enemy,” she gives birth to three of them. The book opens with her thawing a frozen embryo (which she already knew was male), getting pregnant, and giving birth to her third son, Abe.

Sep 24, 2024 | thefederalist.com | Sheluyang Peng

After years of debate, we finally have definitive evidence to prove that affirmative action policies for college admissions have perpetuated discrimination against Asian American students. But “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) die-hards can’t accept it.