The remote village of Perumpadi is a land of sins and secrets. This novel is the story of its people
An excerpt from ‘Anthill,’ by Vinoy Thomas, translated from the Malayalam by Nandakumar K.
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An excerpt from ‘Anthill,’ by Vinoy Thomas, translated from the Malayalam by Nandakumar K.
For his Los Angeles debut at Anat Ebgi in 2017, Jordan Nassar presented a selection of small cotton-on-canvas panels featuring silhouetted embroidered images of swelling, often mountainous terrain. Each thread painting offered a complex and surprisingly tender evocation of a landscape receding into pictorial space, seemingly predicated on a structuring of distance: These environments were simultaneously close but inaccessible, formal yet geopolitical. Much of this effect stemmed from Nassar’s use of Palestinian tatreez embroidery, a form of traditional hand stitching used by women to decorat...