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What Can We Learn from Dystopian Fiction About Climate Change?
If you haven’t heard of cli-fi yet, you are not alone; however, you have probably either read or watched some already.
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The Idiosyncratic Writings of Leonora Carrington, a Reluctant Surrealist
Three books by Leonora Carrington, including her memoir of her time at an insane asylum, reveal the artist's specific vision of the world, which strayed from and defied Surrealism.
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A Photographer Remixes Her Family Photos into Cryptic New Moments
For her new book ObjectImage, Sarah Tulloch has cut and collaged a collection of black-and-white photographs she inherited from her grandfather.
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Looking for Traces of Lenin in Ukraine
The former Soviet republic, which used to have the most Lenin statutes per capita, has dealt with its old communist monuments in a myriad of ways.
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Photographs Document Arctic Change on Our Frozen Seas
Pictures like Diane Tuft's and Stefan Hunstein's eventually may be all that remains to remind us of the Arctic’s terrible beauty.
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How Not to Look at Pictures
Robert Walser was likely to find in images a reason to look into his own fervent imagination.
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One Landscape Architect’s Quest to Understand the American Campsite
Surveying almost 6,500 American campgrounds through their online reservation sites, Martin Hogue mapped the small differences and mass uniformity of this distinct landscape.
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A Horror Comic Suffused with Satanism and Dense with Dread
Winnebago Graveyard takes readers from a carnival freak show to a hallucinatory black mass.
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A Guide to Architects' Mundane and Monumental Graves
The architects of our great landmarks are often buried beneath the humblest of tombstones, or have no marker at all.
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Stories from a Once Culturally Vibrant, Now Neglected Miami Neighborhood
Jacob Katel’s A People’s History of Overtown collects interviews with the people who remember the neighborhood's golden years, before the expressway divided and ultimately decimated it.
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A Graphic Novel Turns the Unpredictability of Grief into a Superhero Tale
Coco Picard’s The Chronicles of Fortune is a story about learning how to grapple with the role of death in life.
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Portraits of Samurai Who’ve Kept Their 800-Year-Old Tradition Alive
In 2015, the Japan-based photographer Everett Kennedy Brown documented the annual festival of Sōma, Fukushima, where hundreds of samurai don colorful armor and recreate a historic battle.