Egypt’s Season of Starlets
In the 1940s and 1950s, all of Egypt was transfixed by the divas of its rising film and radio industries
To Be a Poet, Open Your Eyes
An homage to William Carlos Williams
The Ballad of Glanton Dowdell
An excerpt from The Black Utopians
Figure and Frame
Safi Faye's films invert the ethnologer's gaze on rural life in Senegal
The Importance of Being Hermes
The occult spiritual practice of Oscar Wilde
Buy Boltcutters!
Robert Evans and journalism as activism
