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Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Melissa Holbrook Pierson is the author of five books, including The Place You Love Is Gone. Her reviews and essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Daily Beast, Washington Post, The Nation, and others.

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What Did the Onset of the Age of the Mass Shooting Mean to Americans?

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson February 23, 2022February 24, 2022

Colette Brooks demonstrates how history unites us in both our private and public lives.

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Photography and Its Hidden Power

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson September 8, 2021September 8, 2021

Patrick Nathan suggests that capitalism benefits when human relationships are reduced to two-dimensional representations.

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Victor Burgin’s Unclassifiable Take on the Passages of Art and Life

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson February 6, 2021February 4, 2021

The artist’s landmark experimental text, Between, now reissued, remains one of a kind more than three decades after its publication.

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Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson February 29, 2020February 28, 2020

Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.

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