"China is a complex and ever-changing nation but what repeatedly struck me in each city was the visible split between new and old. " Three digital paintings.
"My earliest memories are of garish red and green kitsch Christmas lights, some black faces but more white ones, set against chalk walls and the whiter still sand and unapologetic deep blue of the Indian Ocean, returning relentlessly to it the way we return to each other, in waves. Accompanying this visual is always the sound of Malaika."
"You don’t know how to do this?' she said, her brow slightly furrowed. It never occurred to her that I’d never done it before." A story of culinary legacy.
Before Einstein and Oppenheimer started working with uranium on the Manhattanville project in 1939, the U.S. government had already approached a different company with a different chemical challenge. In 1937, Captain Paul P. Logan, of the Quartermaster Corps in Washington, …
"During my visit to West Africa I made a horrifying discovery about my supposedly enlightened self: I, too, have assumptions inflected by pan-Africanism."
"If the secret was out, if the Iranian religious police found your satellite dish on the roof, the shiny silver metal protruding outward into the open sky, you were in trouble."