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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