KA Dilday

<p>KA Dilday worked on the <em>New York Times</em> opinion page until autumn 2005, when she began a writing fellowship with the Institute of Current World Affairs. During the period of the f

The Return of the King: Tolkien and the new medievalism

In the 1880s the lay anthropologist L.V. Helms, witnessing satya (sati) in Bali, recorded several reactions. As young, white-clad widows stepped delicately to their fiery deaths on a funeral

By KA Dilday

/ 18 Dec 2003

Lost in translation: the narrowing of the American mind

The Bush Administration has recruited prominent American writers to contribute to a state department anthology and give readings around the globe in a campaign started after 9/11 to use

By KA Dilday

/ 30 Apr 2003