Culture
Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Another America’: Poems in an updated bilingual edition
August 4, 2022“I came to the Southwest expecting cactus, wide open spaces, and adventure. I found, instead, another whole America."
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Portrait of ‘Fighter’ Emmy Lou Packard at Richmond Art Center
August 3, 2022Emmy Lou Packard: Artist of Conscience is a stunning if overdue, retrospective exhibition of an artist largely ignored in her lifetime by critics.
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‘Start from the heart’: Black photographer Adger Cowans, life and times
August 2, 2022Given the Jim Crow era in which Cowans grew up and matured, “I took all that racism and rejection and everything,” he said, “and I put it in my work."
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‘Ms. Marvel’: Politicizing the Multiverse and rendering it asunder
August 1, 2022This is a truly remarkable series and shows how the various “verses,” Facebook’s Meta- and Marvel’s Multi-, can be a space for an examination of social, cultural, and political fault lines rather than simply a commercial...
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Manuel Tiago’s ‘Eulalia’s House’ translator reflects on one of his best books
July 29, 2022Eulalia’s House is the sixth of the eight books in the Manuel Tiago series from International Publishers.
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