What Lies Beneath
“DORIDE is a character who is viewing herself in her own imaginary world. The underwater world is like the world where dreams or art live. It’s not clear whether the …
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The Fixers
On the ground with the Canadian Forces who maintain the air force’s fleet of aged Sea King maritime helicopters
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The Downsized Dream Car
On the Smart Car, a tiny automotive experiment that is not much bigger than a desk chair
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China Beach, Then and Now
danang—“Charlie don’t surf – but you can,” promises the Internet brochure for the U.K.-based Wild Frontiers “Apocalypse Now 2004” tour of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The line is a paraphrase …
Read MoreDubbing, Italian-Style
On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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Election Watch: Buddies in Bad Times
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
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Cross-Border Shopping
Western curators are travelling the globe to find great art. Are they celebrating other visual cultures, or just hoping to enrich their own?
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The Art of the Bad Review
We need more book critics who are fearless—though that alone won’t do
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Summer Plum (Winter Version)
Iwas about seven years old, and it was summer. My mother was making squares for fellowship group at the church, and on the table there was an open bag of …
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