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How the Chinese YouTube sensation has seduced urban dwellers worldwide

Can fungus help us better understand what it means to be human?

What a garden’s lowliest plants can teach us about resistance to capitalism and patriarchy

The artist’s homecoming exhibition at the Contemporary Austin is both deeply moving and tragically timely  

The debut novel, sugar-dusted with zeitgeist signifiers, satirizes the 21st-century urban bourgeoisie – but who is the joke actually on?