Books Newsletter
The countdown to 2026 — and the deluge of end-of-year lists — has begun in earnest, but we're not quite done with 2025 yet. This week, our reviewers tackled two colossal subjects: monuments and the late great Louise Bourgeois. Monumental by Cat Dawson invites us to contemplate a world of
Book Review
Writing one of the first comprehensive biographies of a major artist could prove daunting, but taking on Bourgeois's long life in art might be called heroic.
Book Review
Art historian Cat Dawson’s new book invites us to contemplate a world populated by subversive monuments — or one that does away with them altogether.
Guide
A Ruth Asawa catalog for the disenchanted, artsy almanac for the planners, Prospect Park photo book for the New Yorkers, Vermeer tome for the Golden Age fans, and much more.
Book Review
A photo book documenting the late artist’s colorful, cluttered studio shows an amalgamation of decades’ worth of inspiration.
Features
Our relationship as artist and critic deepened in a profoundly unexpected way as we faced darkness together.
Features
I didn’t speak until I was almost seven. But just because I was not speaking, did not mean I was not listening.
Book Review
Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to ’41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life.
Features
Scholar Roger Luckhurt’s richly illustrated book chronicles the ways we memorialize the dead across the world, tracing burial practices from Ancient Greece to the present day.
Books
While these assignments will not turn someone else into me, they will provide the practitioner with a path to the deviations within themselves.
Features
“I decided to write how the Greeks wrote, as if Yorubaland were the whole world,” the artist told Hyperallergic in an interview about her new book.
Book Review
A new monograph on the nonagenarian American painter is a well of bliss.