Articles by Wen Zhuang
8 articles found.
Freedom for Whom?
The reflexive photographs of Danny Lyon and the stakes of critical curation
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Sit-In, Atlanta, 1963 Who’s the real Danny Lyon? The year was 1969 and Lyon was an …
Brief Elemental Things
A conversation with essayist, editor, and translator Eliot Weinberger
Robert Atwan likened the essay form to a solitary, restless individual; Montaigne believed essays could only be written in paces; Hilton …
No Student Left Behind
The road to cultural competency in CAPS and beyond
One phenomenon has seen steady rise on college campuses: the influx of international students, from an average of 600,000 in 2013 …
Four Poems
I was 12 by the river When I was 12, my uncle took me To the river, so we could Skip …
Some Notes on Weather, Potentialities, and Limitations
Roni Horn and the Icelandic abyss
Preface I recently acquired my first raincoat. It happened at the foot of the Vatnajökull glacier in Southeastern Iceland. “If you …
Strangers Among Us
Story for a dweller, a stranger, and a daughter
Land’s end. But there’s water, O my heart. And salt on my tongue. The end of the world. This is not …
Head-to-Toe in All American
USCIS, the Olympics, and the paradigm of the exemplary immigrant
A clear voice amid the static: “I will be rewarded. I worked my hardest and I will be rewarded.” The pronouncement …
Sun-less Sunset
On the collected and the collective in Chris Marker and Penelope Umbrico
“One day, I’ll have to put it all alone at the beginning of the film. He told that if they don’t …