Tag: Beneath
A massive cavern beneath a West Antarctic glacier is teeming with life
The coastal plain of the Kamb Ice Stream, a West Antarctic glacier, hardly seems like a coast at all. Stand in this place, 800 kilometers from the South Pole, and you see nothing but flat ice extending in every direction. The ice is some 700 meters thick and stretches for hundreds of kilometers off the coastline, floating on the water. On clear summer days, the ice reflects the sunlight with such ferocity that it inflicts sunburn in the insides of
‘Desperate Characters’ and the Chaos That Lies Beneath
This essay is part of T’s Book Club, a series of articles and events dedicated to classic works of American literature. Click here to R.S.V.P. to a virtual conversation about “Desperate Characters,” to be led by Sigrid Nunez and held on Aug. 4.
IN THE WINTER of 1991, I was a resident for a month at Yaddo, the artists’ retreat in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. On the second floor of one of the buildings on the property was a small
Eye-opening new photobook gets beneath the postcard-perfect skin of Venice
Drinking wine in a flood and locals battling blizzards: Venice from a whole new angle, captured in images by a local photographer that get beneath the city’s postcard-perfect skin
- Venezia – Through a Venetian’s Eye has been created by Venetian photographer and local Federico Povoleri
- The 224-page book features images of daily life in Venice and highlights the threats the city faces
- The book’s publisher, Teneues, says the tome offers a ‘whole new perspective into the soul of the city’
The Ground Beneath Us: On the Photographs of An-My Lê
Just off the main road, a blue pickup truck kicks up dust from behind a cluster of shrubs, momentarily perfectly camouflaged. The car is in Ojinaga, Mexico, and on its way to the banks of the Rio Grande, where people are standing around their parked cars and either looking across to the United States, waiting, or simply passing the time. Consider a different