If Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.
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The Offhand Beauty of Houston’s Third Ward
Colby Deal’s photographs capture very little on an individual basis, but an entire world when taken in aggregate.
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Art Writing as an Extension of Life
Artists in My Life dissolves the fourth wall between artist, art object, and viewer, offering a welcome approach to arts writing as an extension of how artists live.
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Sun-Kissed Memories of Ipanema Beach
When I recently came across Sandra Cattaneo Adorno’s photo book Águas de Ouro, I could hear the waves and boomboxes, and even taste the salt on my lips.
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Renee Gladman’s Poems Explore How Words Can Be “Read” as Images
Gladman’s poems suggest how ecological knowledge can affect how we can imagine cities.
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“Inside the Seed, There Is a Kingdom”
Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a “real ask” of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope.
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Queer Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Under the Shadow of Church
Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies.
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Photo Book Retells the History of Hysteria
Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history.
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Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting to Go It Alone
Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.
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These Photographs Were Made in Protest
The camera became the center of Chauncey Hare’s life, and a tool for awakening his political consciousness.
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New Book Asks, Why Do Artists Make Art?
In no small feat, Why I Make Art condenses artists’ multifaceted, meandering spoken stories into lively, relatable narratives that draw the reader in.
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Miami, Chonga Girls, and Claiming an Aesthetics of Excess
Author Jillian Hernandez theorizes the intersecting formations of gender, class, and race in relation to the self-presentation of Black and Latina women and girls.