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Barry Schwabsky

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2016) and a collection of poetry, Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square Editions, 2015). Imminently forthcoming is a new book of essays, Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2017).

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Reader’s Diary: Caetano Veloso’s ‘Tropical Truth’ 

by Barry Schwabsky December 18, 2016December 18, 2016

Caetano Veloso is an aesthete, not a man of politics, but the times and his conscience lent a political valence to his aesthetic choices.

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Reader’s Diary: Scott L. Malcomson’s ‘Generation’s End’

by Barry Schwabsky December 11, 2016December 9, 2016

It wasn’t exactly on purpose that, in the wake of the catastrophe that was Election Day, 2016, I started reading a book about the aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001.

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Reader’s Diary: Liam Gillick’s ‘Industry and Intelligence’ 

by Barry Schwabsky December 4, 2016December 2, 2016

Is Liam Gillick a writer?

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Reader’s Diary: Azra Raza and Sara Suleri Goodyear’s ‘Ghalib’

by Barry Schwabsky November 27, 2016November 24, 2016

While Ghalib’s poetry contains the delicate, evanescent moods and divided self-consciousness one associates with periods of decline, it also embodies the opposite, an arrogant rhetorical vehemence and originality that at times calls to mind John Donne more than any of his Western contemporaries.

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Reader’s Diary: Pierre Reverdy’s ‘The Song of the Dead’ 

by Barry Schwabsky November 20, 2016November 18, 2016

I daresay Pierre Reverdy is the favorite French poet among American poets. But how well do we really know his work?

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Reader’s Diary: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Sonnets’

by Barry Schwabsky November 13, 2016November 11, 2016

In 1913, the young Walter Benjamin struck up an intense friendship with the poet Christoph Friedrich Heinle — one of the most enigmatic episodes in Benjamin’s enigmatic life.

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Reader’s Diary: Barrett Watten’s ‘Questions of Poetics’

by Barry Schwabsky November 6, 2016November 4, 2016

What is “language writing” anyway?

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Reader’s Diary: David Beech’s ‘Art and Value’

by Barry Schwabsky October 30, 2016October 29, 2016

What in the world is art worth?

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Reader’s Diary: Cormac McCarthy’s ‘Blood Meridian’

by Barry Schwabsky October 23, 2016October 21, 2016

Thanks to Blood Meridian, I’ve learned, at least temporarily, the meanings of “quirt,” “pritchel,” and even the seemingly ultra-rare “malandered.”

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Reader’s Diary: ‘Eva Hesse: Diaries’ 

by Barry Schwabsky October 16, 2016October 20, 2016

An artist’s fame may continue, or even grow, as the actual works on which it is nominally based are lost from sight.

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Reader’s Diary: George Seferis’s ‘Six Nights on the Acropolis’

by Barry Schwabsky October 9, 2016October 7, 2016

George Seferis’s mercurial tone can turn on a dime from lyricism to humor and back again, just as his characters shuttle between sensual abandon and neurotic self-flagellation.

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Reader’s Diary: Henri Lefebvre’s ‘Critique of Everyday Life’ (Conclusion)

by Barry Schwabsky October 2, 2016September 30, 2016

Encore un effort on Lefebvre. My first go was nothing but objections. Round two started out with admiration but I soon found myself airing further criticism — almost against my will…

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