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A Photographer Follows the Urban Migration of China's Rural Trees
In Forest, photographer Yan Wang Preston documents the big business of relocating mature rural trees to the new urban centers of China.
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A Writer’s Act of Divination
Selah Saterstrom proposes that the act of divinatory reading and the reading of a text are interchangeable, that a text is far more than a sequence of sentences.
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Real Love: A Cartoonist Draws on Her Teenage Obsession with the Beatles
Carol Tyler recently found her Beatles-centric diaries from the '60s and was inspired to create new illustrations of those days.
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Sweet, Gritty, Impossible Naples
The other great centers of the Italian art world – Florence, Rome, and Venice – have modernized; Naples mostly has not.
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Cuba at the Cusp
The images that foreshadow the turmoil of the Cuban Revolution jar you back to the precariousness of our times.
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French Racial Dynamics, Captured in Comics About Migrant Experiences
Yvan Alagbé continually confronts the reader with difficult glimpses of racial dynamics in modern France.
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Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
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Poet as a Super Thinker
Maged Zaher's poems the emphasize the absurdity of love in the time of late-capitalism.
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One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
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One More Thing I Want to Say about Christopher Middleton
A member of the generation of poets that includes John Ashbery and Robert Creeley, Middleton wrote in many styles, from the classifiable to the unclassifiable.
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A Graphic Novel Asks, Why Art?
Eleanor Davis’s graphic novel Why Art? reflects an unadulterated belief in the power of art.
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The America that Wealth Forgot
Sarah Kendzior, in her book of essays, The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America, claims that economic crisis is the new normal.