Eye on Culture
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July 11, 2018 |
Karl Ove Knausgård / Photo by Thomas Wågström / Forlaget Oktober What are the advantages and pitfalls of the short-short nonfiction essay? And what are the advantages and pitfalls of framing creative... -
July 2, 2018 |
Photo by Volkan Ölmez / Pixabay This text speaks of simplism. Inspired by the rhetorical language of manipulation of reality, it fulfills the function of a scenography that pretends to m... -
June 27, 2018 |
Photo by sandid/Pixabay I write novels set in South India. In English, I invent characters shaped by other languages, primarily Tamil, but also sometimes Hindi. Many of my characters don’t just n... -
June 20, 2018 |
Photo: Pixabay When you think of “westerns” as a genre, you might picture messy saloons, sun-kissed cowboys, and quick-draw duels. A lone tumbleweed rolls across the dirt road while the whistle from... -
April 20, 2018 |
Photo: kendricklamar.com By far the most talked-about award of this year’s Pulitzer cycle was the Pulitzer in music, awarded to Kendrick Lamar for his fourth studio album, DAMN. The discuss... -
April 16, 2018 |
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings (Tate St. Ives, England) Through April 29, 2018 Virginia Woolf’s writing acts as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on la... -
April 2, 2018 |
Herman Trunk, Jr., (1894‑1963). Mount Vernon, 1932. Oil on canvas, 34 1/4 × 46 1/16in. (87 × 117 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; With Permission of The Her... -
February 19, 2018 |
Journeys with 'The Waste Land' at Turner Contemporary. photo: thierry bal LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers (Brooklyn, NY) 2/20/18—2/25/18... -
July 6, 2016 |
Episode summary One of the country’s worst acts of violence against a minority community happened in Oklahoma. The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot led to the destruction of Greenwood, a wealthy all-black ar... -
June 29, 2016 |
Jose Antonio Vargas holds a sign at a Mitt Romney presidential campaign rally in 2011 in a scene from his film “Documented.” Photo courtesy of Apo Anak Productions. Episode summary Pulitzer Prize-w... -
June 21, 2016 |
Just weeks before voters caucus in Iowa and head to the polls in New Hampshire, who will become the two major parties’ standard-bearers and win the nominations is still anyone’s guess. But race an... -
June 15, 2016 |
Episode summary Blowback against the long-standing use of Native American mascots highlights issues of identity and cultural appropriation. Supporters of using Native American symbols, names, and im... -
January 7, 2016 |
Dr. George Henderson and WLT art director Merleyn Bell in the KGOU studio. Issues related to race have become headline news with greater frequency in recent years. As a result, my own lack o...
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