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Mona Chalabi is the data editor for the Guardian<\/em>\u2019s U.S. branch.\u00a0Her beautiful Instagram<\/a> account is a mixture of data, visual art, and, taken together, a kind of self-portrait in infographics, illustrating Chalabi\u2019s preoccupations, curiosity, neuroses, politics, and sense of humor. You\u2019ll find a chart on the \u201cProbability of a White Christmas\u201d (at least one inch of snow) from Michigan to South Carolina, and another of an outstretched leg, illustrating the downward slope in pantyhose sales in Japan. The caffeine content of various beverages is represented by stretched-open bloodshot eyeballs. Another chart, of penises, represents the \u201cAverage Time to Ejaculate During Vaginal Penetration\u201d: \u201cMedian = 5.4 minutes\u201d\u2014though her caption notes, \u201cThis data comes from 500 heterosexual men in monogamous relationships for at least 6 months. So, not exactly representative. And it was collected by asking them to use a stopwatch which you\u2019d think would kill the mood at least a bit. But still, interesting, no?\u201d Yes. Also interesting: the spike in people googling \u201cWill I Die Alone\u201d around Valentine\u2019s Day; the number of decapitated animals found in New York parks (with chickens and pigeons in the lead, ahead of goats and cats); the degree to which Trump campaign contributors profit from his policy of detaining immigrants; and the current disparity in earnings between black and white Americans. Some aren\u2019t charts at all, just facts and drawings, like the one of two hands being pulled apart\u2014one big, one small\u2014posted alongside the fact that 1,995 children were separated from 1,940 adults at the United States\u2013Mexico border between\u00a0April 19\u00a0and\u00a0May 31\u00a0of this year. Some artists are perfectly suited to the visual medium of Instagram. Others provide you with information that may broaden your perspective or at least redeem your procrastination. If these two types are in a Venn diagram, with varying amounts of overlap, then Mona Chalabi is a total eclipse. \u2014Brent Katz\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In times of chaos, it\u2019s often the little things that have the biggest impact. The details of our lives\u2014fleeting impressions, splintered memories, irreparable fragments of identity\u2014eventually accumulate to form our unique perception of the world. Akil Kumarasamy\u2019s multifaceted debut collection,\u00a0Half Gods<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0pays tribute to these little things that haunt each generation of the Padmanathan family through their journey from war-torn Sri Lanka to the quiet \u201cwilderness of Jersey.\u201d Shifting perspectives from an Angolan butcher, to a single mother living with her aging father, to a pair of brothers on a trip to Lake George,\u00a0<\/em>and beyond, Half\u00a0<\/em>Gods<\/em>\u00a0culminates in a kaleidoscopic and nuanced narrative. Kumarasamy\u2019s ability to wrinkle time and space like paper is just one reason that the interwoven tales of each family member flow so seamlessly while still maintaining their individuality. In a style reminiscent of Arundhati Roy\u2019s dreamy yet unflinching detail, Kumarasamy gives her readers a rare opportunity to reflect upon the instances responsible for the formation of identity on both a personal and a national scale.\u00a0\u2014Madeline Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I grew up an hour\u2019s drive from Cantua Creek, California, the place where Joaqu\u00edn Murieta, also known as the Robin Hood of El Dorado, was said to be killed by state rangers in 1853. After Murieta was attacked by jealous white miners, beaten, forced to watch them rape his wife, and driven from his claim, he and one of his infamous partners, Three-Finger Jack, led a gang of bandits on a revenge-fueled campaign up and down the newly formed Golden State. I didn\u2019t know much else about the legend, so I devoured the new reprint of John Rollin Ridge\u2019s 1854 novel,\u00a0The Life and Adventures of Joaqu\u00edn Murieta: The Celebrated California Bandit<\/a>\u2014<\/em>which I only now learned was\u00a0the first novel published in California, the first novel published by a Native American, and the first American novel to feature a Mexican protagonist.\u00a0Joaqu\u00edn Murieta\u00a0<\/em>is a fascinating story, one that is as much a\u00a0foundational narrative of the state of California as it is about American racism and state-sanctioned violence\u2014when a severed head said to be\u00a0Murieta\u2019s was preserved in alcohol as proof that he had been slain, government officials had it displayed across the state as a warning. What\u2019s better\u2014though, for narrative sake, not included in Ridge\u2019s book\u2014is that for years after, Murieta\u2019s family and friends reportedly said that the head was not his and that he was still alive. Today, on California Historical Landmark #344 (a plaque commemorating where the posse of state rangers killed Murieta), graffiti reading LIES – LIES – LIES<\/small> is painted around the monument\u2019s base. \u2014Jeffery Gleaves<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Inca artist,\u00a0Administrative Quipu<\/em>, 1400\u20131532.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This week I went to the Brooklyn Museum. Yes, I was there for the David Bowie exhibition<\/a>, but I found myself captivated by the much quieter resonance of Cecilia Vicu\u00f1a\u2019s show\u00a0Disappeared<\/em>\u00a0Quipu<\/em><\/a>. A quipu is a device used by the ancient people of the Andes to keep records. Without a written language, they used knotted thread to keep track of both practical day-to-day matters and their own narrative history and lore. However, that is the extent of modern Western understanding of the quipu\u2014precisely how or what they communicated is lost. If you subscribe, as I do, to the belief that language is inextricable from the construction of reality, the inaccessibility of a disappeared language will shake the steadfastness of connection you feel to the world around you. Vicu\u00f1a\u2019s installation consists of enormous swaths of fabric hanging from the ceiling, some hanging straight and some knotted, through which low, indistinguishable vocals are piped. The effect of pairing quipus with the sound of the human voice left me saturated with the tragedy of having the key to a culture but no lock in which to turn it. \u2014Lauren Kane<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Throughout her incredible Netflix special,\u00a0Nanette<\/i><\/a>, Hannah Gadsby reminds us that she\u2019s quitting comedy. At first, this seems like a bit. After all, she delivers the line while standing onstage at the packed Sydney Opera House; this is roughly the equivalent of a NASCAR<\/small> driver clinching the cup as they poke their head out the window and scream about the impending obsolescence of automobiles. But Gadsby is getting at something deeper here. Her aim is to dismantle stand-up as a genre and reckon with its unscrewed pieces. As in a fugue, she introduces each element of her routine carefully, then pulls it back, only to return to the same element\u00a0five minutes later<\/span><\/span>. She revisits some of her past material\u2014most notably a joke about almost getting beaten up by a man who assumed she was flirting with his girlfriend. Lured along by Gadsby\u2019s natural gift as an orator, we don\u2019t see what she\u2019s actually doing: stacking these elements like plates behind our heads, with a hammer raised above it all. And when that hammer falls, it\u2019s devastating. Comedy is powerful, Gadsby argues, but it also masks and enhances trauma\u2014especially for marginalized performers. This is comedy meant to scorch, a sort of ars poetica of stand-up that could exist only in 2018. \u2014Brian Ransom<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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