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The Tusk That Did the Damage: A novel (2015)
“From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes, a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous elephant known as the Gravedigger.
Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger’s violence and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own moral gray area: a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film’s subject. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, duty and loyalty, and the vexed relationship between man and nature.
With lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer’s livelihood can be destroyed by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching. In James’ arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage blends the mythical and the political to tell a wholly original, utterly contemporary story about the majestic animal, both god and menace, that has mesmerized us for centuries.“
By Tania James
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Tania James is the author of the novel Atlas of Unknowns, the short story collection Aerogrammes, and the novel The Tusk That Did the Damage, all published by Knopf. Atlas was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, an Indie Next Notable, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a Best Book of 2009 for The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR. Aerogrammes was a Best Book of 2012 for Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and The San Francisco Chronicle. 
Her stories have appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Kenyon Review, One Story, and A Public Space. Two stories from Aerogrammes were finalists for Best American Short Stories 2008 and 2013. The Tusk That Did the Damage was named a Best Book of 2015 by The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR, and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice.
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How Marc colours iridescent by Roxoah
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Seiichi Hayashi
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are you two like genetically related?
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Paintings by American landscape artist Phyllis Shafer (born 1958).
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Pennyroyal Retreat
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Lake Autumn Along the Carson
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Swallowtail Dance
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Thistle’s Repose
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View to Lone Pine Peak
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Tallac Rex
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Hope’s Autumn Grass
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Lavender Morning
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California Live Oak
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Greyhound
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Cook’s Meadow, Yosemite National Park
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Sulphur Buckwheat Morning
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Lake Ediza Afternoon
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Above the Carson
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Reclamation
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San Cayetano Afternoon
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The Red Road
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A Lane of Yellow
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Headland Cove, Point Lobos
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Ruby Mountain Cirque
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Hope Valley Afternoon
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Lamoille Canyon Beaver Pond
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Moonrise
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Birthday present for my dearest of doge memes.
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Finally picked up my tablet again, made a new header and I also think someone should hire me idk
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Sometimes, OCs are what help bring back the need to draw, again. So please enjoy my misguided son of a cult tyrant.
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beach episode
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Summer King, a packaging illustration done for EVERYTHING DICE
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cozy~~
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At our most vulnerable, humans can be quite the irrational creatures. Sometimes we embrace things, urges, emotions, or people that hurt, defile, and destroy us. Then, there’s little you can do once you’re ensnared. Ensnared Digital Painting 2021
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im not looking respectfully at all
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Young woman with sword - Jules-Elie Delaunay 
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Sade photographed by Jean-Claude Deutsch at home in London, 1985. 
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Teresa Feodorowna Ries, Witch Doing Her Toilette on Walpurgis Night,1895
Teresa Feodorowna Ries’ marble sculpture of a nude young woman clipping her toenails with a pair of garden shears catapulted her to fame overnight when first exhibited in Vienna in 1896.
Some critics saw the witch’s expression as too lustful, and accused artist of using a noble stone to create a vulgar grimace.
But Ries had some prominent admirers, including the great Viennese novelist Stefan Zweig and Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I, who spoke to Ries at length during the opening, “guaranteeing good coverage in the press.”
In 1938 Nazi stormtroopers ransacked Ries’s studio and in 1942 she fled from Austria, but had to leave all her works in Switzerland.
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Loputyn aka Unicorn Bunny aka Neoloputyn aka Jessica Cioffi (Italian, based Brescia, Italy) - Regret or Remorse, 2021, Drawings: Digital Art
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