This week, Shigeru Ban’s Mt. Fuji Center, Basquiat in London, the Met’s new admission policy, reviewing Trump’s border wall prototypes, the Library of Congress’s Twitter archive, and more.
January 7, 2018
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An Enigmatic Literary Icon of Modern China
Although Lu Xun eventually cast his lot with the communist revolutionaries, he took a dim view of literature that attempted to recover a national identity or culture.
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Urban Poems of Yearning and Heartbreak
John Godfrey’s poems are like pointillistic patterns more than traditional narratives, suggesting an attitude over a story.
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Mónica de la Torre’s Poems Reimagine an Iconic Martin Kippenberger Artwork
In these enigmatic poems, de la Torre’s mode of direct address seeks to put the reader into a trance.
