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The Treasure Maps of Pamela Singh
Pamela Singh, Treasure Maps 009, 2014. Long before Kim Kardashian’s Selfish—before the selfie was technologically feasible, let alone a generation’s preferred form of self-expression—Pamela Singh was...
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Don’t Gum Up a Book, and Other News
A poster by Arlington Gregg for the WPA. Looking for good summer reading? Our editor, Lorin Stein, went on NPR’s On Point to discuss the season’s best books. Between 1935 and the early forties, the WPA...
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Mahasweta Devi, 1926–2016
Mahasweta Devi. “Please don’t write more books. I can’t read so many books,” a little girl once said to Rabindranath Tagore, the Bengali poet and Nobel laureate. The little girl was Mahasweta Devi, who...
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O Rangasayee
Mark Morris brings back his iconic solo dance. Mark Morris in the original performance of “O Rangasayee,” 1984. Photo: Beatriz Schiller A young saddhu, a lone devotee, with nothing to his name but...
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It Is Known
From a 1952 Air France poster advertising flights to Corsica. As France flirts with political Armageddon, my mind returns to the gentleman with whom I shared a flight in 1996. I was returning from...
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I ♥ John Giorno and So Should You
Ugo Rondinone, THANX 4 NOTHING, 2015, multichannel film installation. In any given decade of his life in New York, John Giorno could be found right in the middle of whatever the new scene might be,...
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Notes from India, 1962
Joanne Kyger in Nara, Japan, June 1963. Photo by Allen Ginsberg. © Allen Ginsberg LLC. In 1960, when she was in her late twenties, the poet Joanne Kyger (1934–2017) joined Gary Snyder in Japan. From...
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The Rhyming Photographs of Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb
Left: Alex Webb, Havana, Cuba. Right:Rebecca Norris Webb, Havana, Cuba. © Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb In Slant Rhymes, published in August, photographers Rebecca Norris Webb and Alex Webb...
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Staff Picks: Big Fish, Bombay, and Busted Pinkie Toes
M. F. Husain, Sprinkling Horses, ca. 1975, oil on canvas, 43 1/4″ x 92 1/2″. While the Guggenheim is rewriting the narrative of twentieth-century art history, with revision inked in pages upon pages of...
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Mountains Hidden by Clouds: A Conversation with Anuradha Roy
Anuradha Roy. Photograph by Gala Sicart. I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published my first book. Not long...
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