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On Addiction and Writing in the Work of Tao Lin
“I think addiction is a part of life. We get addicted to things in ways that each have pros and cons.”
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Poems That Move through Space, Negotiating Switches and Transitions
Ruth Lepson’s verse engages with Cecil Taylor, Cy Twombly, and Philip Guston among others.
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30 Artists and Writers Savor and Digest Those “Lunchbox Moments”
A group of food writers in San Francisco gathered personal essays and art from 30 contributors around the country.
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Ai Weiwei Plumbs His Chaotic Childhood in New Memoir
Ai Weiwei’s childhood recollections are vividly violent.
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What Artists Cook Up in Their Kitchens
It turns out that making a dish and making a work of art have a fair amount in common.
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Reflecting on the Glamorous, Political, and Artistic Covers of Ebony Magazine
The pages of the popular magazine not only instilled pride in Black communities, but also documented and contextualized their realities.
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A Freewheeling Translation of Dante’s Purgatorio
Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers.
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California’s Radical and Multicultural Art History, No Longer Dismissed
Art historian Jenni Sorkin surveys the history of visual art in California from the early 20th century to the present.
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What Does God Even Look Like?
The author, Francesca Stavrakopoulou, pushes back against a later theological worldview that the southern Levantine deity was always a singular, unchanging entity.
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A Century of Women Designers Who Helped Shape Our Lives
Jane Hall surveys a century of women’s contributions to design, exploring the ways they have shaped life not only in our homes and workplaces, but in society at large.
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How Witches Have Held Us Under Their Spell for Centuries
As a free, powerful, and unpredictable woman, the witch has long been a crucible for mainstream society’s darkest fears.
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Artist Sam Francis Gets His First Comprehensive Biography
Francis made over 10,000 artworks, starred in more than 100 solo exhibitions, and, in the late 1950s to mid-1960s, commanded the highest prices of any living painter.