The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn’t truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination.
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A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty
The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right.
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Cups of Nun Chai Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines
Alana Hunt’s emphasis on everyday experiences, shared over a cup of tea, counters the normalization of state violence.
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The Fascinating Lives of Vincent van Gogh’s Three Sisters
“The Van Gogh Sisters” sheds light on Vincent van Gogh’s place within the family, including a complex relationship with his sisters.
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Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet
Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure.
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Michelangelo’s Last Two Decades Were His Busiest and Loneliest
William E. Wallace excavates a lesser-known but crucial final chapter of the artist’s approximately 75-year career.
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Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia
In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat.
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Hanif Abdurraqib on Black Performance and the Joy of Writing his New Book
The poet talks to Hyperallergic about A Little Devil in America and the process behind his new music podcast, Object of Sound.
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New Hokusai Graphic Biography Shares Stories from His Extraordinary Life
At the age of 44, Hokusai took on an amazing challenge: a giant portrait of the founder of Zen Buddhism.
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Analyzing the Biases of Western Art History With Hard Data
Careful and yet compellingly fresh in its approach, Painting by Numbers offers a new kind of methods book.
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The One Book You Need to Read Right Now Is About Canadian Colonialism
“Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being” by Amy Fung is a collection of linked personal essays about language, displacement, and ownership — about being both an “outsider” and an “intruder.”
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Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Wartime Poems
Ungaretti should be numbered among the ranks of such Great War poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, and Isaac Rosenberg.