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Bams, Craks & Secrets: Inside the World of American Mahjong

Inside the Mahjong Cult There are easier games to learn, quieter games to play, and games whose devotees are less likely to correct your terminology before you’ve finished your drink. Mahjong is not one of them. Walk past a mahjong table and you hear the clatter of tiles and a strange vocabulary. “Three bam.” “Soap.”

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Before the Brush: Rajasthan’s Secret Art of the Pinhole

From Rajasthan’s Painted Courts to the Objects We Live With There are things made quickly. And then there are things made by people who seem to have an entirely different relationship with time. In Rajasthan, painting has been one of those things for centuries. Look closely at a traditional Rajasthani miniature and the first thing

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