Whitney Museum Of Yank Art

Get guide recommendations, fiction, poetry, and dispatches from the world of literature in your in-box. Sign up for our daily e-newsletter to receive one of the best tales from The New Yorker. One good factor about the digital revolution, which is otherwise sucking us all right into a plutocratic dystopia, is that the Internet has decreased the obstacles to cultural manufacturing enormously. Many types of cultural goods at the moment are a lot simpler to make and less expensive to distribute. You don’t want an investor to capitalize your production costs or a distributor to get your stuff earlier than the public. And, no matter how small you are, you always open worldwide.

The chief of the band, a muscular man named Toek Tik, had chosen Prasat Krachap rigorously. As a boy, he’d been pressured by the Khmer Rouge to function a toddler soldier. He …