On A visit by Steven Millhauser
In A visit the narrator receives a letter from an old friend, Albert, informing him that he has “taken a wife”. The two men used to be best friends. Nine years have passed
Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain?
Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? Today is the 88th birthday of Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison…
Sebastião Salgados love letter to the planet.
Sebastião Salgados love letter to the planet. “It was a language that didn’t need any translation because photography can be read in many languages. I can write in…
On author and journalist Mariane Pearl
On author and journalist Mariane Pearl. “I decided that if those who killed my husband were determined to show the gruesome side of humanity, I…
Bearing witness to the unfathomable
“And we know a little about the cost of being traumatized that drove some to suicide, that, yes, these people were human beings operating under the most demanding of conditions.” Desmond Tutu on the death of Kevin Carter.
Snapshots of a disappearing world.
Snapshots of a disappearing world. On Albert Kahns archives of the world and his quest to unite people with empathy and understanding through color photography in in the…