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A Commonplace Book

The modernists’ once-subversive refusal to be gulled or lulled has long since degenerated into a ritual of despair at least as corrupt, soft-minded, and cowardly—not to say smug—as the false cheer it replaced. The terms of the dialectic have reversed: now the subversive task is to affirm an ...

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YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

Recent Pieces

On Larry McMurtry,  Kabbalah, and Why I Can’t Write Fiction

The New Yorker, August 26, 1985

Harry Berger, Jr., Some Thoughts on his Passing


On artist and disability activist Riva Lehrer

A contribution to Lehrer's new memoir Golem Girl

Scylla and Charybdis: On Truly Engaging Climate Change

Two recent articles

The Uncanny Tale of Shimmel Zohar

The Atlantic

CORONA                       A Polyphonal Braiding

April-May 2020
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Convergences & Pillows

Impresario

Robert Irwin Getty Garden

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Audio/Visual

A Conversation about Robert Irwin’s Getty Garden with Jim Cuno

The Getty Foundation

Conversation with Federico Solmi

Luis de Jesus Gallery, LA

Humanity vs (or within) Nature: Ren with artists Opdyke, Redniss, Chalmers and Prosek

MANA Contemporary

Discussing Ethiopia and artist Elias Sime with Maaza Mengiste



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