The Reluctant Activist

By Sidney Burris,  Illustration by Lucy Jones
How a Crisis of Books Led to a Social Awakening

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Issue: Spring 2019 / Volume 95/1
Published: February 22, 2019
Sidney Burris

Sidney Burris was the long-time Director of the Fulbright College Honors Program at the University of Arkansas and currently codirects the Tibetan Cultural Institute of Arkansas, while also teaching in the Department of English. He oversees the TEXT Program (Tibetans in Exile Today), an oral-history project dedicated to preserving the...

Lucy Jones

Lucy Jones is an illustrator, designer, and printmaker whose work has been featured in the New York Times, Vogue, WIRED, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere. 

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