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Prof Hemendrakumar Prithviraj Gandhi, 'Father of Indian freshwater diatom science', dedicated his life to diatom research, discovering 299 new taxa an

The two connected to discuss Mother Play, Paula Vogels forthcoming Broadway show in which Jessica Lange stars.

Xinyue Liu on the ghosts of ecocide.

In Ordinary Notes, a extraordinary work of memoir, poetry, and criticism, she writes a love letter to Black art.

Hejira pulled between domesticity and independence, love and art. It's cover, designed by Mitchell herself, was as important as the music

There is a moment that strikes me in Jarrett Earnest’s slight but mighty book Valid Until Sunset—a book of sixty images taken with Earnest’s Fuji Instax mini camera, images that are paired on facing pages with spare, meticulous prose of 250 words each.

20/10/2023 - Matthew Lancit turns his fear of death from diabetes into a sincere diary and a cheeky horror story

"To speak of her as if her death is the culmination of the work, though, is to ignore her attention to death’s vast and fecund opposite, rife with pleasure, with suffering."

Ultimately, Photography is subversive not when it frightens, repels, or even stigmatizes, but when it is pensive, when it thinks… The photographs I am speaking of are in effect punctuated, sometimes even speckled with these sensitive points; precisely these marks, these wounds are so many points. This second element which will disturb the studium I shall therefore call punctum.

22/09/2023 - The new films by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Peter Mettler, Ivan Ramljak and Katrin Rothe, amongst others, will be locking horns at the 66th edition of the German gathering