Our Revels Now Are Ended

… another $200,000 apiece to nine local arts agencies; 3,100 applications were received. The process provoked frustration and consternation on all sides. A scramble for chicken feed, it underscored an absence of national arts leadership.
Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration made available $500 billion in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans, $1.8 billion of …

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January

… remember you.”
If I wait long enough in the day, I lose the sense of what it is I’m doing. In the afternoon I’ll be feeding the baby and be lost to it. I’ll be writing or reading words and be lost to it. I’ll feel nothing and like I’m …

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Native Wisdom

… rejecting science, putting traditional arts and philosophy in its place? Momaday does not address such questions here, but neither does he argue that we must try to feed ourselves by going back to that lost way of life. There are too many of us to allow such fantasy. Although he is a shaman, a poet …

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I Will Not Make Any More Boring Podcasts

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Long-Distance Punishment

… event itself became a work of art, known as the Cremation Project, with photographs showing Baldessari at dusk, smoking a pipe and watching a gloved mortuary worker feed his work into a rectangle of fire. The ashes were subsequently baked into cookie-like figures that were placed in an urn and displayed.
When Charlotte Townsend …

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White, Whiteness, Whitewash

… Club). Like the Gilded Age robber barons who married into the English aristocracy and lived like manor lords in great houses, the Brahmins feed dynastic impulses. Both of these historically specific elite cliques used nepotism, favoritism, legacies, and other Protestant and class connections to police the entrance to their exclusive clubs. In whiteness studies …

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Sitting Down With Witold Rybczynski

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Four-Legged Friends

… sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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The Ghosts of Nazi Germany

… from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.
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Berlin Bops

… Bastek.
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