This week, bus seat ridicule, rewatching The Apprentice, Dunkirk’s colonialism problem, the White House as West Wing, and the future of fake news.
August 6, 2017
Weekend Words: Constitution
“We have built no national temples but the Capitol; we consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”
Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.
Richard Misrach and Guillermo Galindo Mourn the Fate of Immigrants
We are intent on poisoning the earth one way or another. Misrach is determined to document that poisoning without looking away, while Galindo wants to transform the results of that venom into a salve.
A Second Look at Teju Cole
Cole’s photographs are sensitive to the brutal dying that is going on everywhere. He knows that looking is not innocent, and that it will never be.