In Draw Your Weapons, a beautiful meditation on art, war, and the metaphor that connects each to the other, Sarah Sentilles makes mention of many works of art. I was especially curious about the contemporary art she mentioned—the art about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about the aesthetic of violence—and wanted a visual Read more
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John McPhee’s “Oranges”
John McPhee’s Oranges is a delightful read. A collection of seven essays, the book began in the 1960s as a pitch for a short article for The New Yorker. “I intended only some hundreds of words, a few pages in the magazine,” McPhee writes in the preface. But after visiting the University of Florida’s Citrus Read more