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The Surma Boys of Afghanistan

Afghan-American visual artist Daniel Malikyar recently shared some great photos of what he calls “a fashion subculture unlike anything I’ve encountered before” that he found in a remote village in the mountains of Afghanistan. I met a group of boys in a remote village who

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Sicily and the Family Tree of Citrus

On his site Notes From the Road, Erik Gauger has a wonderful eight-part series on The Citrus Kingdom , a collection of illustrated stories about citrus fruit and Sicily. The key to the citron’s future—a future that links nearly every aspect of Sicily’s cultural, political and

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Fugitive imagination

Wherever people are confined, displaced, silenced or made disposable, fugitive forms of knowledge and imagination emerge - by Shahram Khosravi Read on Aeon

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Ten minutes a day

You can’t become fluent in a foreign language in ten minutes a day, even if you try for months. On the other hand, here are a dozen things many of us can do (or do better) if we stick with it: Three-ball jugglingTouch typingRubik’s CubeDrawingMental mathMemorizing a deck of

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When Animals Were Put on Trial in Medieval Europe

Most of us twenty-first-century urbanites have a fairly sentimental view of farm animals, precisely because so many generations have gone by since they’ve been part of our daily lives. (In South Korea, where I live, the agricultural past remains just within living memory.

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The Art World's Neoliberal Capture

In “The Battleground of Art,” curator and activist Marco Baravalle dissects the art establishment's co-optation of radical politics and uplifts the stories of collectives that resist it.

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