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    Contemporary Female Artists at the First Virtual Frieze Art Fair

    Catherine Corman features a few prominent artists in the first ever virtual Frieze Art Fair, which ran May 8 through 15, 2020.

    “There’s a big difference between difficult and bleak”: Talking with Claire Zorn  

    Jay Anderson sits down with Claire Zorn, Australian author and force of nature in the YA space.

    Art Inside: Dividing Line

    Annie Buckley recounts an incident that reveals a stark, unsettling psychological barrier between incarcerated individuals and prison staff.

    Hamilton in the Time of Trump

    Laurie Winer on the Disney+ release of the hit musical during a time of protest.

    The Book of Jiyoung: An Explosively Controversial Korean Feminist Novel Comes Out in English

    Colin Marshall revisits "Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982," the debut novel by a former television writer named Cho Nam-joo.

    Pivotal Decisions Made Along the Way: Talking to Darrell M. West

    Andy Fitch talks with Darrell M. West about how AI transforms our society — for better or worse.

    What Dickens Would Have Thought About Improv Comedy

    Emily Anne Foster relates Middleditch & Schwartz's improv special to the wacky pantheon of Dickens characters.

    That Better America for Everyone: Talking to Representative Ilhan Omar

    Representative Ilhan Omar talks about a past that led her to stand up for New Americans and embrace the challenges of American democracy.

    On Messaging

    Alexander Stern explores the frictionless ease of communication in the digital age.

    The Working Dead: Reviving the Crowd as a Protagonist

    Chas Walker compares the expendability of the crowd in horror films to our current pandemic thinking.