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Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler is an award-winning writer, journalist, and curator. Director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities of NYU, he is also a former staff writer at the New Yorker and the author of more than 15 books, including Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez (2016) and, forthcoming in early 2017, Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists. icon

We Didn’t Have Politicians Up to the Task: A Conversation with Kanan Makiya

By Lawrence Weschler

As the Iraqi Army and coalition forces, supported by US airstrikes, enter the third week of a campaign ...

Making Labor Visible: An Interview with Ramiro Gomez

By Lawrence Weschler

The work of Ramiro Gomez draws attention to the domestic workers and day laborers upon whose ministrations luxury lifestyles depend …

Back to Kindergarten! A Modest Proposal for a College of the Future

By Lawrence Weschler

A visit to that marvelous Century of the Child design show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York last summer set me to musing all over again. Marvelous, I say, albeit a bit of a missed opportunity ...

Errol Morris, Forensic Epistemologist

By Lawrence Weschler

Earlier this year I was contacted by the editors at Zum, a new Brazilian photography quarterly, who explained how they’d lately taken ...

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