Tahneer Oksman

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Tahneer Oksman

Joan Didion’s essay “Goodbye to All That” tells an autobiographical story that has resonated with generations of readers since its publication in 1967. In it, she traces her journey of moving, entirely on her own, from California to New York City in her early 20s. Over the course of eight years, she transitions from experiencing the buoyant eagerness of youth — imagining that endless possibilities are at hand — to outgrowing those feelings and, subsequently, leaving.

Dec 15, 2024 | tcj.com | Tahneer Oksman

The following conversation took place on Sept. 28, 2024, at the Brooklyn Heights Public Library. It was a rainy Saturday, the weekend of the Brooklyn Book Festival, and friends, family, and others gathered close for this thoughtful, lively conversation. Originally published in French, the black-and-white English language edition of Clay Footed Giants was recently put out by Mad Cave Studios. This gorgeous book with a lush cover tells the story of two fathers, Pat and Mathieu.

Oct 3, 2024 | insidehighered.com | Tahneer Oksman

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. popcorn arts/iStock/Getty Images Plus“Write a brief history of your relationship to digital technologies, including social media.”This is a diagnostic prompt I have been giving students for a decade or so, first only in composition classes, now in most first-year classes that I teach. In addition to helping me learn how each student writes, I use this prompt to learn about students’ changing relationships to technology.

Aug 28, 2024 | kpbs.org | Tahneer Oksman

It’s April 1, 1911, and 32-year-old Albert Einstein — former bureaucrat at the Swiss Patent Office, with a half-decade old doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich — sits in a train car with his two sons and his wife, fellow physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić. They are travelling from Zurich to Prague, where Einstein has landed a job as a full professor in theoretical physics, teaching in the German section of what is now Charles University.

Aug 28, 2024 | boisestatepublicradio.org | Tahneer Oksman

It’s April 1, 1911, and 32-year-old Albert Einstein — former bureaucrat at the Swiss Patent Office, with a half-decade old doctorate in physics from the University of Zurich — sits in a train car with his two sons and his wife, fellow physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić. They are travelling from Zurich to Prague, where Einstein has landed a job as a full professor in theoretical physics, teaching in the German section of what is now Charles University.