In July 2022, Auckland teacher Robyn Pryor was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Joining “the worst club in the world” has seen Pryor face the reality
In July 2022, Auckland teacher Robyn Pryor was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Joining “the worst club in the world” has seen Pryor face the reality of.
After 26 years as director of Beacon Press, Helene Atwan will retire July 29. During her tenure, Atwan put the press on sound financial footing while simultaneously publishing one of the most diverse lists in the industry.
This week, the editors celebrate the groundbreaking Black feminist scholar and author bell hooks, revisiting an essay on writing she contributed to Artforum’s November 1994 issue.bell hooks changed lives and minds radically and compassionately as a teacher, an activist, a thinker, and an author of thirty or so books. It stands to reason that one so prolific must have found pleasure in her craft, but according to hooks, her calling was deeper. In “Critical Reflections,” an essay she published in the magazine in 1994, she describes the luminosity, the transcendence, that moves her to write. “As