(RNS) — Some years ago, I was teaching T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” in a literature survey class, as I always do. On this day, students seemed even more befuddled by this notoriously difficult ...

One hundred years ago this December, "The Waste Land" was first published. T.S. Eliot’s famous poem has been described as highly influential, irregular, and innovative. Its theme — the spiritual and ...

As Brazilian born artist Vik Muniz says in the above trailer, he wants to change a group of people's lives with the materials they already work with. The amazing part of Lucy Walker's film Waste Land ...

It may seem contradictory that Rio de Janeiro's largest landfill is called Jardim Gramacho (Gramacho Garden). But spend some time there, thanks to the documentary "Waste Land," and you start to get ...

On Lawrence Rainey’s scholarly new edition of The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot’s Contemporary Prose. Most innovatively, Rainey includes ten prose pieces that Eliot published during the composition ...

The Waste Land was first published in The Criterion, a magazine that Eliot edited, in October 1922, and as a book two months later. Ever since, it has been regarded as the pre-eminent modernist poem ...

For more than 50 years, the communities of Los Angeles County have sent their household and commercial refuse to the Puente Hills Landfill in Whittier, one of the largest public dumps in the country.

WASTE LAND, filmed over three years, follows artist Vik Muniz from Brooklyn to Brazil's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho. Muniz photographs "catadores", pickers of recyclable materials, planning ...