In our new issue, @ekadetsky tracks stolen statues from India to some of the world’s most prominent museums, Matthew Denton-Edmundson suggests a new course for the animal rights movement, and @CaitrionaLally reveals the phantoms of living with tinnitus.
https://t.co/ANTZj4Wrwj
‘Somehow I failed to clock her magnificence’: was the world’s first literary hero a woman?
For centuries, Gilgamesh has been thought of as the world’s oldest literary hero – but does that title rightfully belong to the ancient goddess Inanna?
https://t.co/9ICzUC8tj5
From the essay "The Floating Fish" by Phoebe Stone, new in our summer issue (44.2).
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NER nonfiction editor @ekadetsky talks with @Isolotaroff, author of "A Hole in Time: Memories of an Upper West Side Childhood" (44.1), about living among the literary intelligentsia, writing of his relationship with his father, Ted Solotaroff, & more.
https://t.co/fyBHPWLcFH
@ekadetsky: "Removing [loot] from the museums is a satisfying corrective, but it doesn't address reparations to the harmed communities, the long-term effects of the crimes, how to care for the sculptures once they depart, and where and with whom the sculptures belong today.”