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She was committed to traditional foods—as sustenance, pleasure, and social glue.
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
This visceral metamorphosis, which haunts the pages of her memoir Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within (2007; English translation 2011), transmutes nature’s most fundamental symbol of maternal sustenance into a potent metaphor for creative anxiety born of postpartum despair.
—Fidan Cheikosman, JSTOR Daily, 1 Jan. 2025
Their findings—which are revealing shifts different from what most of the world is experiencing with sea-level rise—will help local communities that depend on these waters for travel and sustenance.
—Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
These themes of renewal and sustenance are core to DAF’s artistic mission and to the Mazra’ah Residency.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2025
This visceral metamorphosis, which haunts the pages of her memoir Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within (2007; English translation 2011), transmutes nature’s most fundamental symbol of maternal sustenance into a potent metaphor for creative anxiety born of postpartum despair.
—Fidan Cheikosman, JSTOR Daily, 1 Jan. 2025
Their findings—which are revealing shifts different from what most of the world is experiencing with sea-level rise—will help local communities that depend on these waters for travel and sustenance.
—Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
These themes of renewal and sustenance are core to DAF’s artistic mission and to the Mazra’ah Residency.
—The Editors Of Artnews, ARTnews.com, 3 Dec. 2024
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