It provokes thoughts about mass incarceration, race, justice, regret, violence, and moral complexity through small-bore stories about cellmates, food, sibling rivalry, isolation, and even pets.
Through Oct. 6 Kathleen Gilje's feminist art might be too easy a target, and yet despite -- or perhaps because of -- its heavy-handed obviousness, it provokes intriguing thoughts about art and sex.
It provokes a debate about Europe's role in sustainability.
It prompts no great soul-searching; it provokes no argument about the nobility of the cause or the sacrifice.
To be sure, the adoption of an oath at some business schools this year is an encouraging sign of the spirit of the rising generation of M.B.A.s, but it provokes several deep questions about the very nature of business and business education.
Nevertheless the Ion belongs in aesthetics by virtue of its focus on artistic inspiration, and the question it provokes of what inspiration implies about poetry's merits.
Ultimately, she says, her protest was a success, as it provoked "conversations about gender equality and body positivity that are both necessary and sorely lacking".
Mr. Rosenthal argued that his client's book, which includes several new characters, qualified as a form of literary criticism because it provoked questions about the nature of Mr. Salinger's book.
Even as the new funding led to important new medical products and technologies, it provoked questions about the financial relationships between industry and the scientists conducting that research.
Although labelling the links was deemed unnecessary - most relations were causal or sequential -, it provoked discussions about what was cause and what consequence.
