by Laton Carter
Two perfect dandelions hover stemless above the grass. The leopard is in repose, and the squirrel, upright on its haunches, offers to share its three acorns with the zebra. In bisected cutaway, the tree is hollow. From its exterior some type of evergreen
In Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, William Dalrymple profiles the devotees of obscure and exacting religious traditions, who embody but also struggle with India’s high-speed modernization. He captures the mute sadness of a Jain nun who watches her closest friend ritually starve herself to death, the faithful mind of an illiterate goatherd who can recite from memory an ancient 200,000-verse epic poem, and the prison warden who, for two months of each year, is worshiped as a deity. Below, Dalrymple, who visits Zócalo on June 22, examines how every corner of southern India is imbued with divinity, and how its temples preserve the famed bronzes of an old dynasty, including the iconic dancing Shiva, above.
by Carrie Shipers
What cars could make men do: bleed, curse,
throw wrenches. Grin, swagger, clap
Anne Boleyn: Fatal Attractions
by G. W. Bernard
Anne Boleyn is a woman of legends. She is the six-finger seductress that ruined Henry’s marriage to the “good queen” Catherine of Catholic myth.
Jonathan Alter, author of The Promise: President Obama, Year One, was born and raised in Chicago, “six blocks from Wrigley Field.” His political roots in the city go far back. “My mother was the first woman ever elected to public office in Cook County, in 1972,” Alter said. Below, Alter, who has worked spent 27 years covering politics for Newsweek, tells us more about himself.
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