Month: May 2023

Documentary photographer Maansi Srivastava shares a story of growing up in the United States and reclaiming her roots in her project Roots Hanging from the Banyan Tree.

(Image credit: Maansi Srivastava)

For Tom Hanks, movies have always been transformative. Now, after acting in dozens of them, he’s written a novel based on his experiences on movie sets. He talked to NPR’s A Martinez.

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By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Eurovision expert William Lee Adams affirms an idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time.

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You suddenly find that you’re able to distinguish the pa-chip-chip-chip of an American goldfinch. Before you know it, you’re mimicking bird calls.

Journalist James Risen tells the story of Sen. Frank Church, who exposed the dirty laundry of the CIA and the FBI nearly 50 years ago, and inspired congressional oversight of intelligence agencies.

The performances are wonderful, the consideration of race is welcome, and the interiority of older women is rarely so sensitively considered. Just be prepared for the second half to get awfully grim.

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Tania Branigan, once China correspondent for the Guardian, makes the strongest English-language effort yet to reconstruct what it was like to live through, and then with, this part of Chinese history.

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Mutu, who lives in Nairobi and Brooklyn, is the star of a show at New York’s New Museum. Her art takes on viruses, genocide, junk mail (the “sleeping serpent” is full of it), her own hybrid identity.

(Image credit: Courtesy New Museum. Photo: Dario Lasagni )

The sense of community I’ve regained with the game of golf during the pandemic is more than I could’ve ever imagined.

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Shouts & Murmurs by Cora Frazier: I wasn’t one of those people who got messy, cracking open another LaCroix with a burp, or asking to pay less when I split a bill because I’d ordered only a mint tea.