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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.
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Bursts of Humor and Intricate Visuals in a Collection of Alan Moore's Lesser-Known Comics
Though "Brighter Than You Think" is of limited use as a critical text, it’s tough to beat as a straight-up collection.
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Reader’s Diary: David Graeber’s 'Debt: The First 5,000 Years'
It's no wonder that few things inspire as much persistent paranoia as banking. But a little paranoia might not be such a bad thing.
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An Atlas for the Mythical Places that Have Populated Our Maps
The Phantom Atlas chronicles centuries of fictional locations that were included on maps of the world.
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Reader’s Diary: John Mullan’s ‘Anonymity’
In case you were wondering, no, it was not by oversight that I didn’t bother to mention, when writing last week about Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter, the recent brouhaha about the violation of Ferrante’s privacy.