Books Archives

Tender Pictures Capture a Gender-confirming Journey

Photographer Fin Serck-Hanssen follows Hedda, a Norwegian in her early 20s, as she travels to undergo cosmetic surgeries and a vaginoplasty.

Weems’s essay is excerpted from Ways of Hearing: Reflections on Music in 26 Pieces.

Three art historians put the focus back on Kahlo’s artistic output.

A new book explores the impact of rapid growth and industrialization on six major Latin American cities.

Rafał Milach sharply documents three international border walls and how they impact our sense of identity and memory.

One hundred years after Mary Hiester Reid’s death, Flower Diary recovers the elusive, overlooked artist’s life and work

Most eye miniatures were exchanged between lovers, though they were also given to close friends and family members.

“Oxford has a complex social divide that tends to be ignored,” says photographer Arturo Soto.

Some 600 years later, Margery Kempe’s disquieting sobs continue to confound and provoke.

Fukase’s obsession with photographing the people he was close to overwhelmed his subjects and eventually drove them away — so he turned to cats.

Sara Davidmann explores the space between what we can know about one of the darkest moments in human history and what is impossible to recover.

Books from Inventory Press, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, and b_books reshape our understanding of publishing and librarianship.