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12 Historical Fiction Books That Show History Was Never as Simple as You Were Told
From colonial revolts to quiet resistances, these historical fiction novels challenge everything you were taught about the ...
In Boston’s sprawling Triennial exhibition, an Indigenous artist’s evocations of cultural extinction haunt
Nicholas Galanin, one of the best-known Native American artists in the country, brings his wryly fatalistic vision of ...
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Rick O’Shea: Vanished tribal customs, a serial killer sister and other books that vividly evoke Nigeria
I buy new notebooks, and frequently new pens, every January, any time I start a new project – or sometimes just because I see one that whispers to me and tells me that I have to own it. This, of ...
Documenting Life on Both Sides of the South African Color Line
David Goldblatt photographed the societal warping that apartheid inflicted, drawn to “the quiet and commonplace where nothing ...
Ngũgi wa Thiong’o and the African literary revolution
From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.
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First Look: Wangechi Mutu’s “Black Soil Poems” at Galleria Borghese
The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...