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In February 2022, amidst the onset of the war in Ukraine, my mom and I went shopping: flour, rice, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste, toilet paper, laundry detergent, and other common imported goods from Russia. Later that same spring, my uncle passed…

Image 1: Quiet Flows the Don. New York: Carrol & Graf Publishers, 1996.

Image 2: Quiet Flows the Don: a novel in four books. Moscow: Raduga Publishers, 1984.

Image 3: Tikhii Don: roman v chetyrekh knigakh. Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo…

Shoeless Yosuf... One of this westerner's childhood memories is children's books from Europe. They were in French, German, Russian, and thus "unreadable" but beloved just the same, and linguistic barriers contributed to their mystique. This…

Artist statement: This work is an assignment from concept art class with Matthew Cook. The assignment is to design a creature based of an existing animal. I chose frilled lizard. May take on this is to execute the picture in filmic style as if this…

Translation of Caitani mutharaba-ini , originally written in Kikikuyu by the well-known Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

Call Number: PL8379.9 .N4 C319 1997

Sherry Fowler received her Ph.D. in Japanese Art History from UCLA. Among her publications are Muroji: Rearranging Art and History at a Japanese Buddhist Temple (University of Hawai’i Press, 2005); “Locating Tomyoji and Its…