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Author: GILLIAN VOGELSANG-EASTWOOD
Embroidery is one of the world’s most widely shared forms of creative expression—and one of its most varied and diverse.
It can be found in every region, yet its visual languages, themes, and techniques vary greatly: Some are marked by unique styles and others show influences from neighboring cultures.
“The Atlas of World Embroidery” examines many distinctive embroidery styles and traditions found across the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
Is civility merely a matter of reinforcing status and exclud-ing others? Or is it a lubricant in a polarized world, enabling us to overcome tribal loyalties and cooperate for the common good?
In “A Defence of Pretence,” Indira Ghose argues that it is both.
Ghose turns to the drama of Shakespeare’s time to explore the notion of civility. The theater, she suggests, was a laboratory where many of the era’s conflicts played out.
The plays test the precepts found in treatises on civility and show that, in the complexity and confusion of human life, moral purity is an illusion.
