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Mary Ruefle’s Sage Advice on How to Keep Your Eyes Open While Sleeping
This is a book you want to read slowly, to savor both for what it says and how Ruefle says it.
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A Fragmented Portrait of the Last Male Northern White Rhino
The images in Giovanna Silva's new book are beautiful, but they’re simultaneously awash with heavy gloom.
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Interconnected Comics Examine People’s Relationships to Home
In her new graphic novel Something City, artist Ellice Weaver explores all corners of her fictive metropolis.
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Unruly Poems that Illuminate White Supremacy in Everyday Life
Poet Nikki Wallschlaeger's new book Crawlspace discovers the violence embedded in our most familiar structures: mortgages, meals, rooms, houses, family relationships, and language itself.
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A Glossy Photo Book Captures a Beautiful But Sanitized Detroit
Michel Arnaud’s book makes a fine addition to any Detroit-lover’s library, but it takes away the elements that make the city real, vital, and colorful.
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Photographs of Life at Two Edges of the North American Plate
For her book Rift/Fault, Marion Belanger investigated landscapes along the San Andreas Fault in California and the Mid-Atlantic Rift in Iceland.
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The Rainbow of Japan’s LGBTQ Identity, Captured in Photos
Queer people in Japan are in the spotlight in the latest installment of a book series that documents LGBTQ lives around the world.
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Paging Through Chris Marker’s Studio, a Spatial Representation of His Mind
A new book takes readers into the workspace of the venerated filmmaker.
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An Illustrated Portrait of Lolita Fashion
Jane Mai and An Nguyen's So Pretty/Very Rotten attempts to give a broader sociological context to this subculture that quietly began in the Tokyo district of Harajuku in the 1970s.
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Mind Music: Reading Clark Coolidge
Jack Kerouac’s writing opened up the literary horizons for Coolidge — horizons where a musician’s intuition and technique could be expressed in writing and thinking.
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The Lurid Covers of 20th-Century Pulp Fiction
Pulp cover artists recognized the American appetite for lurid and violent imagery, and the Wolfsonian is exploring the social issues embedded in their illustrations in a new exhibition.
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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.