Silver Bow Creek/Butte area, Silver Bow/Deer Lodge counties, Mont., 1986. (Photograph by David T. Hanson) Silver Bow Creek/Butte area, Silver Bow/Deer Lodge counties, Mont., 1986. (Photograph by David ...
(RNS) — Some years ago, I was teaching T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” in a literature survey class, as I always do. On this day, students seemed even more befuddled by this notoriously difficult ...
One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...
The past two centuries of industry have scarred the American landscape, leaving polluted wounds that may never heal. Superfund sites, areas designated by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
Prospect receives commission when you buy a book using this page. Thank you for supporting us. In 1926, an Oxford undergraduate called Wystan Hugh Auden read the poem “with growing awe”. He ...
The enhanced e-book — a digital text that comes garnished with multimedia material — is one of those ideas that sound terrific in theory but are rarely satisfying in execution. Economics is largely to ...
This article has been updated below. “Waste Land” is a vibrant and exciting documentary about the unlikely collaboration between Vik Muniz, a prominent Brazilian-born artist who now lives and works in ...
“We are not pickers of garbage; we are pickers of recyclable materials,” Tião, an impoverished Brazilian catadore, or trash picker, declares to a talk-show host in Lucy Walker’s inspiring documentary ...
Photo from the film “Waste Land,” Artwork Courtesy of Vik Muniz Studio. Jeffrey Brown spoke with “Waste Land” director Lucy Walker last year about the film for NewsHour Art Beat. Since its release, ...
It's almost impossible to think of a world in which The Waste Land did not exist. So profound has its influence been not only on twentieth-century poetry but on how we've come to view the century as a ...
In Star Trek there’s the “prime directive,” Starfleet’s code of noninterference. What do filmmakers abide by? Should documentaries interfere with their subjects’ lives? But how could they not? I don’t ...
Art, like charity, begins at home. Vik Muniz grew up poor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where obtaining food, like painting a canvas, sometimes required an act of imagination. He found fame as a visual artist ...
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