A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, artist Miya Ando's "Water of the Sky" is a rich collection that describes the breadth and diversity of rain’s many expressions.

Out November 4th, 2025: mitpress.mit.edu/978026204986...

Read a sample of the new translation of famed Afro-Brazilian thinker Leda Maria Martins's "Performances of Spiral Time," including Fred Moten's foreword, free online: buff.ly/fa4nwHW

I am grateful to the US government for listing the Western Snowy Plover as Threatened under the ESA and for the dedicated staff of the US Fish and Wildlife Service for enforcing those protections. 🌎 Monterey Bay CA #Gratitude ##BlueskyArtShow #birds #photography #nature #endangered

What a gem from Ben Lerner

This rufous hummer was driving me nuts! It took me 3 hours to get a shot. He is my first one of the fall migration season and was constantly chasing the Anna’s and black-chinned #hummingbirds around, sitting still for only a second now and then.
#birds #photography #birding #nature
#hummingbird

"The Western bourgeoisie, though fundamentally racist, most often manages to mask this racism by a multiplicity of nuances which allow it to preserve intact its proclamation of mankind's outstanding dignity." - Frantz Fanon (The Wretched of the Earth)

Charles Ginner's many rooftop vistas are a distinctive theme among the Camden Town painters. This view is probably from a window in his studio in Tadema Street, Chelsea from around 1912.

Winifred Knights painted the broad sweep of the limestone cliffs at Beer in Devon in 1922 in a series of atmospheric seascapes but this is the only one where she had used such luminous colour to create one of the most evocative pictures of this beautiful coastline.

My personal gold standard for contemporary short fiction