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We have neither a shared language nor a shared understanding of what we’ve just been through. What will the “Covid plot” be in the story we tell of this time?

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Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi, Illinois DANNY MCARTHUR, Daily Journal FacebookTwitterEmail TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — It was a near-miss snake bite that finally spurred Clodie Casey to leave his job at a Fulton sawmill and head north. Not that he hadn’t been considering leaving the South already. Many Black people had for a host of reasons. But nearly being bitten must have caused Casey to re-evaluate his situation, because that same day, he headed for Illinois. “My dad went ...

Portrait of the Dying Edith Schiele, by Egon Schiele, 1918. Wikimedia Commons. Let’s begin with Egon Schiele’s elbows: the Austrian artist’s swollen left elbow bent over his head in a gesture of support, the right drawn across his face, almost directly under his nose. Here, in his 1910 painting Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), rendered in muddy browns and sickly yellows, Schiele’s limbs look withered, his joints too pronounced. His elbows frame his face, drawing attention to one arch...

Noam Chomsky, Bill Gates, Avni Doshi among speakers as Jaipur Lit Fest goes virtual The coronavirus pandemic, racism and nationalism and, of course, books will be talked about at the 14th edition of the popular literature festival that will be held from February 19-28. February 13, 2021 / 08:43 AM IST (From Left) Jaipur Literature Festival producer Sanjoy K Roy with co-directors Namita Gokhale and William Dalrymple. (File image) Instead of footfalls on the hallowed ground of the Diggi Pal...