Clamoring for Life
Though exceptional, fully developed female characters abound in Gabriel García Márquez’s work, only in his last novel, Until August, is a woman the uncontested protagonist on her own journey of self-discovery.
May 9, 2024 issue
The Passion of Martha Graham
In a new biography, Deborah Jowitt meticulously describes Graham’s pioneering dances, but brushes lightly over Graham’s fervid, turbulent personal relationships, and the importance she ascribed to passion and sexual pleasure.
May 9, 2024 issue
Migrant Workers in Their Own Land
After closing its borders to Palestinians employed in critical sectors, Israel’s government has faced a labor shortage—which is being met by Indian migrant workers.
April 21, 2024
Nature’s Rival
Antonio Canova’s clay models reveal the creative struggle behind the classical perfection of his marble sculptures.
May 9, 2024 issue
In Gaza’s Hospitals
It’s not easy to work under continuous military attack, to wake up and close your eyes to injuries and corpses, to feel helpless to stop it all.
April 19, 2024
Free from the Archives
Martin Gardner: The Third Coming“Millions of Americans, disenchanted with science and politics, are longing for apocalypse—for a mystical explosion that will instantly solve the world’s problems and start a new age of love.”
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