“Man-eating orchids” (March-April). Bernard Witlieb suggested as a possible answer the short story “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid,” by H.G. Wells, in which a man breeds an orchid that overpowers him with its scent and sucks his blood until it is discovered in the act and destroyed by his housekeeper.
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Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture
Historian Joyce E. Chaplin reinterprets an early era of invention, industrialization, and climate challenge
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum
An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music
Operatic counterculture, a Passover graphic novel, James Joyce’s biographer, and more
