Banana Yoshimoto’s ‘The Premonition’Appears Too Clever for Its Own Good
When a reader has to walk that vulnerable space between style and substance, falling deeply into the former at the sake of the latter,...
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Artist Draws From Childhood, and Uncovers a Model for Care
As artist Maggie Wong talks about her early childhood in Oakland, California, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she pauses. Stopping...
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‘Pleasure’ Takes Unflinching Look at Disability, ‘Token’ Feel-Good Politics
When It’s a Motherfking Pleasure begins, writers-performers Samuel Brewer, Aarian Mehrabani, and Chloe Palmer introduce themselves with...
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‘I Thought I Was Dead’: At Boston Event, Victims of Israeli Bombings Tell of Horror and Death in Gaza
You may have seen Nada before, in an image that she never wanted to be taken, in an image that changed her life. In it, her face is...
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