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The Mimic
From Secret Life by The Ellsworth and Jeff VanderMeer. Images courtesy of Drawn & Quarterly. Read a short introduction to this book by writer and critic Alex Dueben. Continue reading
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Review: Bewilderment by Richard Powers
“I T IS NO MEASURE of health to be well adjusted,” goes the oft quoted but unverifiable aphorism from the Indian philosopher Krishnamurti, “to a profoundly sick society.” Richard Powers’s new Continue reading
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A Case for the Porch
There is no better time to rethink the edges of where we live and what we build.
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Water: A Biography
The story of the struggle with water is the root of organized society. Continue reading
Art & Craft
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Autumn 2021
People from My Neighborhood Hiromi Kawakami Soft Skull Press I LOVE MINIATURES, the way big ideas are shrunk to digestible bits and dollhouse-size designs, where everything is there—just smaller. In Continue reading