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Bringing Canonical Thinkers to Bear on 21st-Century Life
In a new genre-defying book, Jasmine Dreame Wagner subjects her life to critical scrutiny with the help of philosophers, theorists, and artists.
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Photographs of North America’s East Coast Capture Its Fragile Ecosystems
Photographer David Freese journeyed along the continent's eastern shoreline, documenting it in the face of climate change.
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A Book Highlights the Oddities of the Woodcut World
These prints helped render the world for mass consumption.
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The Uncanny Body: Jennifer Firestone's Gates and Fields
At its center, the book offers the refusal to accept an already-formulated understanding of loss that lies at the heart of the experience of grief.
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Julio Cortázar's Literature Class
Circumscribing his goals and ambitions, Cortázar says that “in the present day, what matters is not to be a writer from Latin America but to be, above all, a Latin American writer.”
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A Study of Art Galleries Reveals Their Aesthetic of Transcendental Experience
David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.
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A Political Cartoonist’s Stark Portrayal of Palestinian Existence
Mohammad Sabaaneh's collection of political cartoons White and Black is a graphic telling of the human rights abuses perpetuated by the Israeli state against citizens of Palestine.
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A Photographer’s Uncanny Images of Amusement Parks at Night
After the sun set and the amusement park closed, photographer Stefano Cerio documented the surreal scenes of its vacant rides.
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Crosscutting Tales: Donald Breckenridge's Novel And Then
Satisfying both on the level of story and style, And Then is a thoughtful meditation on the residue that remains: the ghosts that people our lives, the dead we cannot forget.
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Molly Nesbit Chases the Big Ideas
“I’m interested in how ideas function in the world, in questions of practice, not just theory,” Nesbit told me. “I’m not interested in theory per se, but rather in thinking.”
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The Graphic Persuasiveness of 20th-Century Communist Posters
The first major survey of communist poster art considers the visual legacy of propaganda graphic design in nations around the world.
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Eerie Photographs of Solitary Cars in 1970s New York
Cars: New York City, 1974–1976 collects 115 photographs by Langdon Clay of cars both beautiful and battered in the nighttime.