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The Radical Side of Suburbia
In Radical Suburbs, author Amanda Kolson Hurley argues that the failures and achievements of suburban life offer a roadmap to future sustainable and equitable housing.
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Giorgio de Chirico's Dream-like Verse
These poems channel the artist's restlessness and longings into uncanny, animated visions.
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A New Book on Women Artists Is Welcome, But Uneven
The title of Great Women Artists is complete with a strikethrough across “women,” to indicate that the artists within are “great artists” regardless of gender. Visually, it’s arresting, but its intention is murky.
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Tracing the Rise of Houston’s Art Community
Pete Gershon's book about the Houston art community offers some simple advice: live around artists you respect and in a place you can afford to make work, even if no one buys it.
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Pulling Birds Out of the Sky
Stephen Gill's new book of photographs, The Pillar, thrums with the spirit of birds, and demonstrates that without them, there is no land; without the birds, there are no pictures.
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When Trauma Becomes Art
Nancy Princenthal’s Unspeakable Acts delves into the links between violence and silence, art and terror, and how pioneering women made them into art.
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A Former Cam Model Reveals How Desire Can Be Both Liberating and Confining
In her new memoir Camgirl, screenwriter Isa Mazzei joins the long tradition of women who use the personal to explore and deconstruct sex and culture.
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A Multi-faceted Look at Francis Bacon’s Psychology
The five essays in Bacon and the Mind: Art, Neuroscience and Psychology call us to grapple with an artist whose life and work were anything but simple.
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Putting the Art Back in Art History
Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.
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A Novelist Mines the Profound Humor of Human Life
Etgar Keret's stories are absurd, tragic, surreal, and often dramatic, with surprising and shocking twists.
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The Artists Who Wrote Poetry at Black Mountain, From Josef Albers to John Cage
Including poems from well known writers and less expected artists, Black Mountain Poems produces a keener vision of the interdisciplinary culture of the famed college.
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Visions of the World as a Brutal Dystopia
Author Luke O'Neil will read passages from his brutal new book Welcome to Hell World, a text that starkly explores grim current events in the United States.