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Godmothers Grow: The Sacred Circle with Diana Raab, Ph.D., a space to gather, reflect, and connect with kindred spirits ...

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Social media and ChatGPT are changing the way we use text. Artists are pulling text in different directions in their practice, too. Some examples from recent shows across Goa and New Delhi.

As we wind down another trip around the sun, dear readers, let’s take a look back at what the world of local Arts & ...

Christmas is many things, not least an opportunity to remember past years, celebrations and people. With this offering, we’re reprising a Christmas story we published in 2014. A ghost of Christmas ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...