Bloomsbury Publishing

Making and Drawing

Kyra Cane

Cane is a British potter,and her perspective is that drawing and making are the same activity at different stages. Drawing isn’t how you plan a pot, it’s how you think about one — the loose sketch that finds the curve,…

Stories of the Sahara

Sanmao

Sanmao was a Taiwanese writer who read one article about the Sahara and moved there, marrying a Spanish diver named José and settling in El Aaiún in the Spanish Sahara in the 1970s. These are her dispatches: Building furniture out…