Presumed Innocent: On Bill Traylor’s Verve Something was definitely stirring deep within William “Bill” Traylor. In a span of four years, he expunged a lot of it, producing 1200 drawings and paintings with graphite pencil stubs and poster paint on discarded cardboard. Traylor bears…
Refusing to Look Away: The Act of Killing and the Indonesian genocide of 1965 A portrait of Pak Kereta, a key contact during the author’s research in Indonesia. Photo by Robert Lemelson. The Act of Killing (2013). A Film by Joshua Oppenheimer. In the mid 1990s I was conducting transcultural psychiatric research in…
Aliens Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the very human way that scientists, engineers and…
