Three psycho-spiritual “events” of the 1970s — involving Philip K. Dick, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence and Dennis McKenna — had a strange synchronicity.
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Those Limits Were Not Hindrances: An Interview with Megan Pugh
How a writer worked hard to understand one of American music’s most mysterious performers while protecting his past, and art.
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Cahiers du Post-Cinéma
The movie theater was once a kind of lay church, with festivals like TIFF serving as annual religious holidays — until new houses of worship opened online.
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Remembering Scott Walker
When the pop singer went avant garde, he traded narrative meaning for emotional truth to explore those things that lay beyond language.
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Mountains, Transcending
“Ever since I was five years old,” wrote opera singer–turned–Buddhist lama Alexandra David-Néel, “I craved to go beyond the garden gate, to follow the road that passed it by, and to set out for the Unknown.”
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First Contact
Sarah Watts details how science fiction shaped her family, her religion, and her own self-image.
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Notes on Citizenship
Nina Li Coomes reckons with the quandary of citizenship and the meaning of home.
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The American Way
A Chinese painter explores the US-Mexico border and discovers the reality of the border crisis.
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How Refugees Die
Wars and heightened border security have created a humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.
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In the Country of Women
Amid badass women and endless stories, a young California writer comes of age in the orange groves as the Golden State comes into its own.
