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I write to you from the past

If you think about it, every book, article, and even email that you've ever read was written in the past, relative to when you were reading it. But this week's Editors' Picks is from even further back in the past, since as this hits your inbox I am relaxing in a cabin near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.by Alejandra Oliva

Kateryna Shadrina's We Are Together and Tree of Life
"In the early days of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian Greek Catholic icon writers in Lviv took part in a group exhibition on the Lenten theme Waiting for Salvation. Two iconic figure groupings from Kateryna Shadrina underscored the importance of community in times of trouble.""Netanyahu has done a singularly poor job of leading Israel, but he is also a symptom of a larger problem, one that has long undermined Israel's efforts to be a Jewish democracy in a region hostile to its existence: the deep power imbalance between Israelis and Palestinians."art commentary by John Kohan


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