Tag: Art and Culture
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Q&A: State of Minds
Don Graham’s essays explore Texas’ storied history in film and literature By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine A vast land filled with sleepy small towns, sprawling pastures and gleaming urban skylines, Texas has an identity and mystique all its own. Just the word Texas conjures images of rootin,’ tootin’ cowboys, cattle drives, oil wells and…
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English Professor Dean Young Named 2014 Texas State Poet Laureate
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine Dean Young, professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named the 2014 Texas State Poet Laureate by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Recognized nationally as one of the most energetic, influential poets writing today, Young holds the William Livingston Chair of Poetry. He has published…
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That’s Shakespeare, With One ‘S’
By Jessica Sinn English Professor Confirms the Bard’s Hand in The Spanish Tragedy For centuries, scholars have been searching for answers to a literary mystery: Who wrote the five additional passages in Thomas Kyd’s “The Spanish Tragedy”? Mounting arguments point to William Shakespeare, but English professor Douglas Bruster has recently found evidence confirming that the 325 additional lines are indeed the…
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The Secret Life of Magnum Photographs
By Jessica Sinn, Life & Letters Magazine High above a blur of cars on a congested street in Lower Manhattan, a Chinese man sits atop a tiny fire escape sipping a bowl of noodles. Surrounded by a concrete jungle of asphalt and high-rise buildings, the man is far from isolation. Yet somehow he appears to be…
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Honoring Our Crowned Beauties
A Q&A with ‘Peace to the Queen’ Lead Curator Ja’nell Ajani By Jessica Sinn • July 20, 2022 For more than 40 years, New York City-based photographer Jamel Shabazz has been telling stories through powerful images that capture the energy and spirit of Black life in the city. Using photography to reveal our shared humanity, Shabazz provides a…
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