Ryan Ruby
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The Poet Is Present December 17, 2024
Poets have accumulated many labels throughout history. Some are not so flattering—Plato saw them as liars and demanded their exile from his precious utopia. Others glimpse, in the role of the poet, something closer to the sacred: Emerson called them ...
Coming Undone November 19, 2024
Writing, it’s been said, remains unique because it is the only medium that can use its own form to investigate itself; that is, the art and the criticism that seeks to understand the art share the same ground. (Where is photography’s essay on the ima...
Thal Tales November 01, 2024
RIOTS IN PARIS GRAB THE HEADLINES, but the real radicalism in France happens in the countryside. Take the zone à défendre, or ZAD, in Notre-Dame-des-Landes. What began in 2012 as a farmer’s protest against the construction of an airport turned into a...
