Cloud, Steam, and Soot ‘Turner’s Modern World’ at the Kimbell Art Museum The Fighting Temeraire is one of the eighteenth century’s most recognizable paintings. It depicts the lithe,...
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The Wanderer NICOLE-ANN LOBO Why do we leave where we come from? The question is central to writers of diasporic fiction, a diverse coterie within which Jhumpa Lahiri tends to be grouped....
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SCREEN NICOLE-ANN LOBO Eat or Get Eaten 'The White Tiger' A dilapidated rural village, an intelligent protagonist achieving success against all odds, saccharine reflections on our common...
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BOOKS Warnings from India NICOLE-ANN LOBO Azadi, a word of Persion origin, resounds throughout Asia as a cry for liberation. Declared in Hindi, Urdu, Armenian, Azeri, Kashmiri, and other...
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BOOKS Seeing the Expendable NICOLE-ANN LOBO MY MOTHER'S HOUSE FRANCESCA MOMPLAISIR Knopf $26.95 1304 pp. The Kreydl phrase kay manman mwen translates in English to “my mother’s house,” which...
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SHORT TAKES NICOLE-ANN LOBO Precarity Made Plain Letter from the United Kingdom In mid-March, before the University of Cambridge shut its doors, I stockpiled four boxes of library books in...
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SHORT TAKES NICOLE-ANN LOBO The Crackdown in Kashmir Another casualty to Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist agenda Since the partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, the disputed territory...
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Nicole-Ann Lobo A Brownsville Summer Where We Come From Oscar Cásares Knopf, $25.95, 272 pp. Does our place of origin determine who we are? The question confronts all those who leave their...
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Nicole-Ann Lobo Modi's 'Mother India' NATIONALISM IN THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEMOCRACY National elections in India, the world's largest democracy, are a long and grueling process. This year's were...
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Nicole-Ann Lobo 'Places Remember' Bangkok Wakes to Rain Pitchaya Sudbanthad Riverhead Books, $27, 368 pp. Afeeling of saudade permeates the pages of Bangkok Wakes to Rain, Pitchaya Sudbanthad's...
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