New Tibetan Photographers: Beyond Shangri-la (Tricycle)
“Foreign photographers have shaped the Western images of Tibet. Now Tibetans are taking control of the camera.” A talk with Oxford Professor Clare Harris about her work on photography and Tibet.
Porochista Khakpour: “I’ve Become Uninterested in Darkness” (Guernica)
Porochista Khakpour’s Brown Album: Essays on Exile and Identity tells a deeply moving—and often startling—story of being brown-skinned in America.
The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas (The New Yorker)
Though I was nervous about meeting the great man, one of Cuba's most admired writers, Arenas immediately put me at ease. "Encantado," he said, smiling and taking my hand. Forty years old at the time, he had thick, curly black hair and enormous, sad eyes; his face was lined and leathery.