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A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum reveals how deeply embedded a Native woman’s perspective on our culture might be.
Sep 27, 2024 / Feature / Elizabeth Pochoda
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Remembering the “Placatory and Principled” Victor Navasky Remembering the “Placatory and Principled” Victor Navasky
Colleagues pay tribute to the former editor and publisher of The Nation.
Jan 30, 2023 / Obituary / Elizabeth Pochoda, Calvin Trillin, and Richard Lingeman
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The bidding is sparse, but the late author’s modest effects are revealing.
Jul 19, 2019 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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A Midwestern tour of Sweat, staged in community spaces, invites its audience into the play.
Nov 2, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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What the Black Dolls Say What the Black Dolls Say
These rare survivors of early African-American art can illuminate much about our difficult history.
Sep 17, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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An innovative civic-education organization is inspiring students of a once-progressive state.
Aug 15, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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Rethinking Cultural Currents of the South Rethinking Cultural Currents of the South
Two new projects remind us of the cultural potency of the region.
Jun 28, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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Remembering Philip Roth, 1933–2018 Remembering Philip Roth, 1933–2018
The late writer specialized in answering low blows with high spirits.
May 25, 2018 / Elizabeth Pochoda
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How to Lose Friends and Influence People How to Lose Friends and Influence People
…and other tales from the “back of the book.”
Mar 23, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda
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If, in an age of mechanical reproduction, art had lost its aura, he restored that aura; he enchanted an unenchanted world.
Nov 6, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Elizabeth Pochoda