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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
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Diary: Sumana Roy, Do Trees Laugh?
Inanimate Scream, Inanimate Nature Responding to the Professor’s Musings (1921), watercolor on paper.
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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…
Diary: Sumana Roy, ”Exhaust Pipe“
Sleeping Farmer, Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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…
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Diary: (2) John Oakes on Silence
Desert Hermitage in Wadi Naqqat (5th–6th Century CE), eastern desert of Egypt.
Middlemarch: Book Three
Did you notice the white stag in Chapter 28?
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Mona Simpson
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How a trade bookstore and its sister Christian bookstore combine two worlds of American reading
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Ann Kjellberg
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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.
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Mona Simpson
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