The woods are quiet. An overnight snow covers the fallen leaves and highlights the occasional green. This is a favorite time of Thom Smith’s to wander the Berkshire forests.
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In the days after the 2016 election, Safiya Sinclair sat in a quiet study and wrote new poems. She was walking around scared and depressed, she said. The feeling is strong, and it is also familiar.
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Paris. August 28, 1939. The Mona Lisa is carried out of the Musée du Louvre in a stretcher and taken away in an ambulance. Six days later, Germany has declared war on France, and the museum has sent more than 3,600 paintings and sculptures into hiding. Many hands helped. “Café […]
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Composer and musician Toshi Reagon presents an opera based on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel ‘Parable of the Sower,’ the story of a strong woman surviving in a turbulent future.
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