Maaza Mengiste
Maaza Mengiste, a critically acclaimed novelist and essayist, examines the individual lives at stake during migration, war, and exile. She was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and lived in Nigeria and Kenya before moving to the United States. Mengiste’s debut novel, Beneath the Lion’s Gaze (2010), was named one of The Guardian’s 10 Best Contemporary African Books. Her latest novel, The Shadow King (2019), was called “one of the most beautiful novels of the year” by National Public Radio and was a 2020 Booker Prize finalist. Winner of the 2020 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mengiste’s honours include the Creative Capital Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Puterbaugh Festival of International Literature & Culture.
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Six Asian Creatives Share the Inspiration That Drives Them
These creative leaders are driven by everything from comic book art to ancient Chinese sculpture.
By Nafeesah Allen Alice Morgan During this month, we celebrate the heritage of people of Asian and Pacific Island descent. Doing so isn’t just a firm commitment to creating a future that eradicates anti-Asian hate and challenges model minority myths, but it also entails a look back at the past to see how those cultures inform our present. The depth and variety of cultural production emanating from Asia and reverberating throughout global Diasporas have had a lasting impact on the art and design worlds. Many museums and galleries boast impressive collections that nod to those geographies and civilizations. More importantly, the Asian creatives behind art institutions and the creators of contemporary works are bringing fresh perspectives to notions of representation. From curators to comic book designers, creatives
Released on March 4 by
The Wall Street Journal and
Le Monde, the letter contains a signature from Dr. Richard H. Ebright, a high-level scientist who says the
World Health Organization (WHO) is complicit in a massive Chinese Virus coverup and “disinformation” campaign.
A Board of Governors professor of chemistry and chemical biology at
Rutgers University, as well as laboratory director at the school’s Waksman Institute of Microbiology, Ebright has more than 160 publications and more than 40 issued and pending patents. Ebright is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences who has worked on two
National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants.
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