What Happens to the Deported

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The New Yorker, Culture Desk, February 4, 2017 My grandmother had no husband, or at least that is always what I assumed as a child. While I could account for each member on my mother’s side—a large Italian family of great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and a myriad of cousins, first and second, who met for […]

How to Be a Man

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It is done with the body, not with the mind. She should feel when you begin to move and if she precipitates the wrong direction, you’ve done something wrong. Then, it is your job to guide her. Read more here

Letters From Two Exit Strategists

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A Conversation with Vanessa Manko and Jacob Newberry. Dear Jacob, I like imagining you in Jerusalem, and I’m happy to meet you via this exchange. Your piece was one of the first pieces I read, drawn, I think, to its title, the succinct and direct ‘Summer’. I was immediately struck by the sense of place and […]

Keeping Up with Bill T. Jones

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Although at 61, and after 40 years of performing, Bill T. Jones could respectfully retire, the iconic choreographer believes that an artist is “committed to participating in the world of ideas…and as an artist, are you willing to help build this world?” Jones has done much to help build the world of dance, and this […]