When MFA Chinese art curator Dr. Nancy Berliner met Wan-go Weng, a prominent art collector, in a Shanghai library in the 1980s, she couldn’t have known the relationship would bear so much fruit, and that their friendship would continue on for over 25 years. Read more...
Novelist Rachel Kushner spent a weekend in the Shuafat Refugee Camp in East Jerusalem, where she felt both safe and obscene. Recounting her time there in her first journalistic piece "We Are Orphans Here", Kushner, a privileged outsider, vividly describes the camp through stark contrasts—life and death, peace and chaos, hope and despair—captivating and resonating with the reader. Read more...
This American Life aired an episode called “In Defense of Ignorance” on April 22nd, 2016 in which stories and examples of ignorance were shared, proving that sometimes there can be a benefit, a bliss, or even an asset to not knowing. Lulu Wang, an American writer and filmmaker, told a story about her family’s white lies towards her grandmother who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and only got three months to live. The story stands out because of its empathetic topic – sickness and death – with a unique narrative style and the open ending which is thought-provoking for listeners. Read more...