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Revisiting Richard Powers’ The Overstory in the aftermath of this summer’s wildfires in France.
Musings on our impulse to translate nature into art.
On the art of listening.
Reading Wuthering Heights with a group of juvenile offenders.
Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall offers a meditation on selfhood and wholeness.
Set in the 1930s, The Matchbox Girl feels alarmingly resonant today.
In turbulent times, art often takes a surrealist turn.
The feminist icon lived a life of genius but failed her own daughter.