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Oil in the Gulf, 2010

From the December 2010 Print Edition

Watch as it spreads and curls like a midnight lily aching into the open air, blooming with a certain placidity, a certain un-industrious possibility. But this is not a world of air. This is a world where enormous petals of watery bone and compiled time well-up as a reminder: that what history has . . . . Continue Reading »