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Reader's Diary: The Monastery Door Is Open
Pierre Reverdy’s novel The Thief of Talant is not a novel at all, but a long poem or sequence with elusive narrative underpinnings.
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The End of the World as We Know It
The Nuclear Culture Source Book considers the “lived experience of the uncanny nature of radiation” ushered in by disasters such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima.
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The First Known Printed Bookplate
Dating to 1480, the oldest known printed bookplate is part of a centuries-long history of personalization by book lovers.
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A Photographer Documents the Uncanny Consistency of Hilton Hotel Rooms
Swiss photographer Roger Eberhard traveled to 32 cities in five continents to document the uncanny uniformity of the Hilton's standard hotel room.
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Reader’s Diary: The Porn of Poetry
Dodie Bellamy’s Cunt Norton isn’t exactly pornography, but it’s a step in the right direction.
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Richard Sandler’s Startling Photographs of Pre-9/11 New York
From 1977 to 2001, Richard Sandler photographed startling juxtapositions between the grit and glamour of New York City and Boston.
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Learn to Tesselate with an Islamic Design Workbook
The "Islamic Design Workbook" by Eric Broug encourages a better appreciation of Islamic art, through learning how to create its geometric patterns.
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Comics Tales of a Perpetually Horny and Lonely Millennial Girl
Gina Wynbrant's comics are pleasantly uncomfortable and brash.
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A Startlingly Intimate Graphic Novella About the Black Plague
Julia Gfrörer expresses the fantastical and the medieval in the mundane.
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Reader’s Diary: The Importance of Being a Simile
Although the poetry in Geoffrey Nutter’s Cities at Dawn is almost always calmly descriptive, whatever it describes is somehow something else and not itself.
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The Omni American Author: An Albert Murray Collection
Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs opens with a seminal piece, The Omni-Americans. In 1970, Murray took on black protest writers and defied establishment thinking with his claims of “a folklore of white supremacy and a fakelore of black pathology.”
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A Book and Exhibition Reveal Josef Albers's Rarely Seen Photocollages
In his only lecture on photography, Albers warned students against approaching photography carelessly, and the collages he made of his own photos show how he put that mantra into practice.