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Why Are People Still Pressing Flowers? It’s a Form of Storytelling.
For 500 years, we’ve documented the science and beauty of the natural world by pressing plants. It’s a tradition that anyone can join.
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This Barbie Is Now on Strike
The actors’ strike effectively ended the “Barbie” film’s press tour. But Margot Robbie’s pink-carpet outfits are worth remembering.
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100 Years Since the Birth of the Soviet Union, in Pictures
It is the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia says he wants to remedy by waging war against Ukraine; it is the legacy of Moscow’s dominance that Ukrainians hope to free themselves of by defeating Moscow. It was ...
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A Literary Scene Where Parties Are Part of the Agenda
LittlePuss Press specializes in work by transgender writers. Its founders also know it’s hard to resist a great party.
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Poem: Advent
When I think of Nebraska poems, I mostly think of Ted Kooser and “So This Is Nebraska,” which celebrates the slow vastness of the state with an assertive universal and personal “you.” This poem by Kwame Dawes, however, aptly describes the way an ...
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Poem: Diaspora Sonnet Traveling Between Apartment Rentals
Oliver de la Paz’s poem is part of a series of “diaspora sonnets,” in which this one, along with others, create a whole, while each sonnet can ...
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This Is What China’s Renewed War on Covid Looks Like
Less than a month after softening pandemic restrictions, China has reinstated some “zero-Covid” policies in an effort to control a new wave of ...
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The View From Inside a Nation Once Again Grappling With Covid-19
Less than a month after softening pandemic restrictions, China has reinstated some “zero-Covid” policies in an effort to control a new wave of ...
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