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In photojournalism, there are two kinds of pictures. One delivers the news with shocking precision: The image of a drowned Syrian child washed up on a beach in Turkey; the spectacular, eerie stillness of a protester about to be arrested in...

say i was a careless shutting
of language an accident
sound whirling into the guttur

I am an architectural marvel, a gleaming façade, a mirror in the middle of an urban wasteland. And yet, I am invisible. You might think—

The outsized grandeur of the boreal can still appear so wild, so endless, it’s hard for newcomers to recognize the loss. Each generation’s perception of normal is molded by the environment they encounter, masking the gradual fade, a...

In the Mountains of Northern California, an Art Exhibition for Aliens

Pink Floyd’s Animals
drones through a thin
dreamless sleep I keep

There is no sugarcoating this: Climate change is going to be tragic.

Reality Beyond Realism in the Paintings of Edvard Munch