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Going Dutch
I was standing in a room at the National Gallery of Art last October, puzzling at three Dutch paintings of women with parrots: Gerrit Dou’s Woman With a Parrot (1660), Frans van Mieris’s Woman Feeding a Parrot (1663), and Caspar Netscher’s Woman Feeding a Parrot, With a Page (1666). Having come to …
Read MoreRaja Ampat: Seas of Change
… had shared with me. It showed a villager holding up an enormous, bright-red fish by its lower jaw: a mature twinspot snapper. The fish, which feeds primarily on smaller reef fish, was nearly half as tall as the Papuan man displaying it. Why were foreign tourists being served one of this reef’s …
Read MoreLive-Hang
… Jorge ate it. And then Miguel and Tonio ate one. And then they each ate another one. They were on ranch land, and they came across a feed shed, where grain had been stored. They found an open tank of water. They parted the scum on the water, teeming with insect life and eggs, and …
Read MoreZombies and Plagues and Bombs, Oh My!
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Renaissance Rumor Mill
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Too Much of a Good Thing
A couple weeks ago, walking back from the épicerie in the light rain, I was scrolling absentmindedly through my Twitter feed, glancing up now and then to cross the street or maneuver around a slow-going stroller. At some point, I might have switched over to Facebook or Instagram—I don’t remember. What I …
Read MoreReclaiming Craftiness
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A Revolutionary Change of Heart
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Flowering Thyme
… in jagged
precision. Each one can depend
on a hand extended: the falconer’s
falling glove, the worker’s callous.
The truth is in the job, not the wound.
For to the manner born, the reach
knows its risk. You can keep
them both in the shed behind the house,
feed one and oil the
School’s Out for Segregation
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