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Sierra Bellows

Sierra Bellows  lives in Ottawa, Canada. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Gulf Coast, Meridian, Greensboro Review, and the Scholar.

Artist of Excess

Artist of Excess

The man who painted his century’s nightmare

by Sierra Bellows | Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Long-Distance Punishment

Long-Distance Punishment

Could a landmark work of conceptual art be an emblem for the Covid era?

by Sierra Bellows | Thursday, December 03, 2020
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Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Intimate relationships shaped by the movement of history

by Sierra Bellows | Monday, June 01, 2015
Water in the Empty Part of the Map

Water in the Empty Part of the Map

The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke

by Sierra Bellows | Friday, December 07, 2012

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words

by Tim Wendel

April 4th marked the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination. That night in 1968, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy broke the news to an Indianapolis crowd gathered for one of his rallies. “Listening to the speech decades later is to be reminded of the real power of words,” writes Tim Wendel in this 2012 essay. “How they can heal, how they can still bring us together, but only if they are spoken with conviction and from the heart.”

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