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Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
Madeleine Crum reviews Colombe Schneck’s “Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories.”
The Lost Codex of Moctezuma (2024), oil on linen, 56 x 76 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches; Installation view, Raul Guerrero: Terra Incógnita , April 25 – June 8, 2024, David Kordansky Gallery, New York. Photo: Phoebe d’Heurle. Images courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery.
Andrew Graybill reviews Robert Aquinas McNally’s “Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness.”
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Justin Wigard reviews Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Angel of Indian Lake.”
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Dylan Adamson positions the discourses around Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” within the director’s larger body of work.
Prof. Saree Makdisi diagnoses how the university, the police, and the media have failed our students protesting on behalf of Gazan lives.
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