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"Passage" is an excerpt from Lydia Paar's stunning book The Exit is the Entrance: Essays on Escape.

Marley Howard is our 2026 visual arts contest winner, for her “Freed Bird Freed People” piece featured above. We admired the sense of imagination in the main subject’s expression, the intimacy with th...

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Bong Joon Ho’s first film after Parasite is another satire, this time with a delirious sci-fi veneer.

Over the past two years, everyday people have been showing up in support of Ukraine in both big demonstrations and small acts—including displaying the Ukrainian flag, publicly advocating for peace and...