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Diary: Sumana Roy, Forest Education (Part One)
Jacket illustration by Elisa Talentino for Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree On his first visit to such a large congregation of trees, my…
Sep 17, 2021
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Do Trees Laugh?
Inanimate Scream, Inanimate Nature Responding to the Professor’s Musings (1921), watercolor on paper. From the series of comic sketches, Reform Screams…
Mar 29
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Forest Education (Part Two)
“Krishna explaining the importance of trees to gopas,” Datia, Central India, mid-eighteenth century CE (Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya…
Sep 19, 2021
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Diary: Sumana Roy, ”Exhaust Pipe“
Sleeping Farmer, Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York At night I lie in bed thinking of where exactly it might be. It’s…
Aug 12, 2022
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Review: Sumana Roy on Surdas
The word for “philosophy” in many Indian languages is darshan. It also means “seeing.” That philosophy—which was once also kavya, poetry—is related to…
Dec 15, 2023
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Summer Special and Open House!
Through Labor Day Weekend! Hi everyone! We thought we’d take these last quiet weeks of summer, when we hope you are either swinging in your hammock with…
Aug 1, 2023
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Diary: (2) John Oakes on Silence
Desert Hermitage in Wadi Naqqat (5th–6th Century CE), eastern desert of Egypt. The Endangered Hermitages project of University of Ljubljana in Slovenia…
Feb 2
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Middlemarch: Book Three
Did you notice the white stag in Chapter 28? The designer Colin D used it as a theme for the cover he designed, inspired by our Summer Reading, for his…
Jul 30, 2023
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Mona Simpson
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Middlemarch: Book Four
In Book Four, we see the great interconnectedness of life in Middlemarch and life at the old country estates. The social world, with all its complexity…
Aug 6, 2023
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Mona Simpson
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Middlemarch: Book Five
George Eliot had the most equivocal of minds. We’ve noticed that she sees pride as the most dangerous human quality, with the power to keep those in its…
Aug 13, 2023
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Middlemarch: Book Six
Consider this little-cited paragraph: Of course, as a servant who was to be told nothing, he [Pratt, Casaubon’s butler] knew the fact of which Ladislaw…
Aug 20, 2023
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