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It’s not new, this condition, just for awhile
kept deep
in the cortex of things imagined

What is the genesis of art in a repressive society? In Iran, repression has ruled in one form or another for the last half century and still, the voice of the people rings out around it. As Iran’s recent manifestations of state power take a...

A series of paired photographs and poems that document the effects of deprivation, poverty, and racism on young people in the United States.

Do you care to know
their names—Malcolm,
Martin, Medgar?

I met Andre Lambertson less than a year ago in New York. I was on a panel at a leading journalism school talking about work I had done with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting on HIV/AIDS in Jamaica for VQR and for a website called...