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OPENING CITATION
John Berger, G (London: Bloomsbury, 1996 [1972])

INTRODUCTION
Virginia Woolf, The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928. Vol. 3, ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), p. 574

9 JULY 2020
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (New York: Vintage, 1991)
Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven (London: Signet Classics, 2009 [1845]), available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, trans. C. F. MacIntyre (Berkeley, Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 2001 [1923])
Virginia Woolf, Killing the Angel in the House: Seven Essays (London: Penguin, 1995)

10 JULY 2020
John Le Carré, The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories From My Life (London and New York: Viking, 2016). Reproduced with permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London on behalf of John le Carré. Copyright © John le Carré 2016

12–13 JULY 2020
Zadie Smith, On Beauty (London: Hamish Hamilton 2006), line taken from Nick Laird, “The Last Saturday in Ulster” in To A Fault (London: Faber, 2005)
God knows, you need God to get through the/ Death of your son… Alexandra Fuller, first published on Instagram, @alexandrafuller___

14 JULY 2020
“Daniel Lewis Lee executed after Supreme Court clears the way for first federal execution in 17 years,” CNN, July 14, 2020, transcript available at https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_f135e7af1b8b293d00ea987e9d435c5c
Associated Press, “Dictator Said to Be Trailing in Malawi’s First Open Election,” New York Times, May 19, 1994
D. L. Swerdlow, G. Malenga, G. Begkoyian, D. Nyangulu, M. Toole, R. J. Waldman, D. N. Puhr, R. V. Tauxe, “Epidemic cholera among refugees in Malawi, Africa: treatment and transmission,” Epidemiology & Infections, vol. 118, no. 3 (June 1997), pp. 207–14
Fazal Sheikh, A Sense of Common Ground (Zurich: Scalo, 1996)

17 JULY 2020
“Red Light Revolution,” Newsweek, February 14, 2019

18 JULY 2020
Congressional Black Caucus, “The Congressional Black Caucus Mourns the Loss of Congressman John Lewis”, July 17, 2020, https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2211
John Lewis with Michael D’Orso, Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998)
Wangari Maathai, Obituary, Daily Telegraph, September 26, 2011

19 JULY 2020
Johnny Clegg and Savuka, “Dela,” written by Johnny Clegg ©️ 1989 Rhythm Safari Pty Ltd., from the album Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World, Capitol, 1989
William Blake, “The Tyger” (1974) in Songs of Innocence and Experience (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994), available at https://www. poetryfoundation.org/poems/43687/the-tyger

20 JULY 2020
Henry Fountain, “In Parched Southwest, Warm Spring Renews Threat of ‘Megadrought,’” New York Times, July 8, 2020

21 JULY 2020
“Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Memorials, and Statues and Combating Recent Criminal Violence,” June 26, 2020
“Presidential Proclamation Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument,” December 4, 2017
Marc Wing, “It was like being preyed upon: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them,” Washington Post, July 18, 2020

23 JULY 2020
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower (London: Headline Publishing, 2019 [1993]). Copyright © 1993 by Octavia E. Butler. Reprinted by permission of Writers House LLC acting as agent for the Estate

24 JULY 2020
Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus” in Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings, ed. Gregory Eiselein (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2002), available at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46550/the-new-colossus
“Here in Minnesota we don’t just welcome refugees and immigrants, we send them to Washington.” Democrat Ilhan Omar, in her acceptance speech, after being elected to Congress, November 6, 2018. See Michelle Bruch, “Ilhan Omar’s road to Washington,” southwestjournal, November 12, 2018

25 JULY 2020
Nick Laird, Glover’s Mistake (London: Fourth Estate, 2009)

26 JULY 2020
Terry Tempest Williams, The Book of Men: Eighty Writers on How to be a Man, ed. Colum McCann (New York: Picador, 2013)

27 JULY 2020
Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds (New York: Picador, 2012)

28 JULY 2020
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle (London: Penguin Classics, 2002 [1906])

30 JULY 2020
Virginia Woolf, The Waves (London: Vintage Classics, 2016 [1931])
See Kiki Smith, “[P]rints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet everyone is different. I think there’s a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.” in “Making Metaphors of Art and Bodies,” Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, November 15, 1996

1 AUGUST 2020
“Bolsonaro says Deforestation will never end in Brazil,” Fohla de S. Paolo, November 21, 2019