December 7, 2022
In this episode of our podcast, we talk to professor and curator Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos about two books: Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, which accompanies an exhibition… READ MORE
September 18, 2019
Books can amuse, provoke, and uplift. The best ones are also, just a bit, like CRISPR technology. That breakthrough allows biochemists to edit genomes. Potent, lasting books reedit our minds…. READ MORE
May 24, 2018
Stephen Houston— A grievous feature of our age is the use of young men in combat. A recent film was made about this ongoing tragedy: Beasts of No Nation, based on the… READ MORE
June 21, 2017
Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos— In his field diary entry of October 30, 1960, ethnographer Marcelo Díaz de Salas wrote down a brief story that he’d been told by Miguelito, a young… READ MORE
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