This month’s Dispatch brings together a collage of art, books, and film—each revealing something essential about how we understand one another across cultures, and how easily injustice takes root when we don’t pay attention. From a Colombian friend who handed me the books he thought I needed, to the young fundraisers who inherited my library and surprised me with their gratitude, to the hard truths embedded in Killers of the Flower Moon—these stories remind us that communication is never neutral. It shapes who is heard, who is ignored, and who gets written into the record. What We’re Reading and Viewing—and […]