Rohini Mohan India’s Farmers on the March Agriculture in India relies heavily on rain and temperature in the growing season; farmers here are highly sensitive to climate. They have already felt the beginning of the apocalypse in the form of dried-up wells, declining yields, and mass migrations of people. December 14, 2018
Martin Filler God Save McQueen Nearly twenty-five years ago I was called into the office of Anna Wintour, my boss during her brief interregnum at *House & Garden* magazine before she ascended to fashion glory as editor-in-excelsis of *Vogue*. “You use too many adjectives,” she told me. “I don’t like adjectives. That’s all.” But I now wonder how one could possibly explain the peculiar and pathological art of Alexander McQueen (whose most powerful promoter has been Wintour) without recourse to many multiple modifiers? May 24, 2011
Elizabeth Gumport The Long Exposure of Francesca Woodman Given that her complete catalogue is composed almost entirely of work she produced as a student, the posthumous critical esteem for American photographer Francesca Woodman is astonishing. January 24, 2011
Mark Ford Ted Hughes’s ‘Last Letter’ > “What happened that night? Your final night.” So begins “Last Letter,” a poem, or rather draft of a poem, by Ted Hughes published in the October 11 issue of the British magazine the New Statesman. October 28, 2010