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  Helen Hennessy Vendler was born in Boston in 1933. She studied chemistry at Emmanuel College, a Roman Catholic school for women in Boston, and went to the University of Louvain after graduation on a Fulbright fellowship. She took her Ph.D. at Harvard in 1960 with a dissertation on Yeats, a...

We collected over 100 of the absolute best trippy movies, albums, books, TV Shows, and more to help you celebrate your 4/20 right.

The exhibition Disguise the Limit highlights the many different ways Yau has worked with a wide range of visual artists over the past five decades.

Border Crossings is a cultural magazine edited and published in Winnipeg. A local, international magazine, it is now in its 35th year of continuous publication. Edited by Meeka Walsh, it investigates contemporary culture through a combination of articles, reviews, interviews and portfolios of photographs and drawings.

This month: Rollie McKenna, Michael Hambouz, Alina Tenser, Pearl Cowan, and much more.

Mukoma can end the silencing of his mother, Nyambura. I will give him a free title: Nyambura, the phenomenal woman behind the great Ngugi.

   

"Language is the glove into which I stick my hand, which permits me contact with the world," says the writer and poet Wayne Koestenbaum.

In 1947, when the 24-year-old Saul Leiter first saw Henri Cartier-Bresson’s prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, photographers were content to be regarded as photographers. Today’s aspirational ideal is “artist” or “artist using a camera”. But if Leiter is a consummate artist that is because his talents were uniquely served by – and entirely dependent on – the camera in his hand.

Poet, art critic, curator, and musician Jeffrey Grunthaner’s first full-length poetry collection Paracelsus’ Trouble With Sundays is a book like no other I have ever known, one that truly must be seen to be believed.