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To Be a Field of Poppies

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Lisa Wells, Ann Neumann

Compost yourself: on the social, psychological, and ecological implications of rethinking what happens to our bodies after we die

To Be a Field of Poppies

by Lisa Wells,

The elegant science of turning cadavers into compost

Out With a Bang

From the website of Holy Smoke, a memorial-services company based in Alabama.

Edible Complex

by Herodotus, Tom Holland,

From a new translation of Herodotus’ The Histories, by Tom Holland, out this month from Viking.

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Sirocco

by Michael Christopher Brown,

Lakshmi’s Story

by Vaishali Raode,Translated by P. G. Joshi, R. Raj Rao,

By Vaishali Raode, from Mi Hijra, Mi Lakshmi (“I Am a Hijra, I Am Lakshmi”), an account of the life of Lakshmi Narayan Tripathi, a transgender-rights activist in the Indian…

Not with a bang

Translated by Xiyun Yang,

The Ghosts of Doongerwadi

by Sherally Munshi,

Among Bombay’s dwindling Parsis

Slight of the living dead

by Amir Vehabovic,Translated by Michael Leidig,

Sweet chariot

by Bert Keizer,

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To Be a Field of Poppies

To Be a Field of Poppies

Out With a Bang

Edible Complex

Blue Sky Days

Sirocco

Lakshmi’s Story

Not with a bang

The Ghosts of Doongerwadi

Slight of the living dead

Sweet chariot

May 2007

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