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“Eye-Voices, a Choir”: New Translations of Paul Celan
The Romanian-born, German-speaking Paul Celan is one of the most translated poets in recent decades, and we’re still not through with him.
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Angels and the Dead: Reviving Occult Manuals
It seems like every few decades there is a mainstream revival for the occult and esoteric. Not that it ever fades away, but there is a periodic surge in fascination with the unknowable, the rites, rituals, and art that make up its history.
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Is Pizza Box Art the Most Underappreciated Art?
How much time do you spend looking at the art on a pizza box?
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Alan McMonagle’s "Psychotic Episodes": “I’ve a feeling we’re not in [Old] Ireland anymore”
“Being born in Scotland carries with it certain responsibilities.” That observation, made by Derek Taylor, the Liverpool-born newspaperman who became the Beatles’ press officer, was irreverently included on the back cover of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s record album The Plastic One Band/Live Peace in
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Geography Lesson: Lytle Shaw’s Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
Lytle Shaw’s Fieldworks is a big and ambitious study that is a welcome addition to the dense, unruly, and relatively unmapped field called “postwar poetics.”
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The French Fight Back Against Amazon
France has passed a law meant to protect independent bookstores and stop the monolith of Amazon from taking over book sales in the country.
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Break Through the Lines with Artist-Designed Coloring Books
For anyone soothed by the careful filling in of white space or enthused by wrecking it all with random slashes of color and unconventional hues, there's been a recent influx of coloring books created by artists.
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The Mobius Strip Melding Sci-fi and Architecture
The futures that are built through architecture and the futures that are constructed through science fiction aren't always galaxies apart.
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The 19th-Century Story of the Wonderful Tattooed Man
The story of how a boy from Providence, Rhode Island, became "the most wonderful tattooed man ever known in the civilized world" involves menacing sailors and voyages across the sea, and was recently digitized so that we can all read this tale of the 19th century.
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Living in Hypothesis: The Poetry of Patrizia Cavalli
It’s refreshing, in this age of ubiquitous self-promotion, to pick up a book modestly titled My Poems Won’t Change The World, the first substantial American anthology of Patrizia Cavalli’s work.
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Inside the Mind of Hans Ulrich Obrist
The celebrity curator may be a phenomenon on the rise, but before Klaus Biesenbach and Paola Antonelli, there was Hans Ulrich Obrist. Obrist, who's currently the co-director of exhibitions and programs and director of international programs at London's Serpentine Gallery, has a list of curatorial ac
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Bright Nights, Weird City: Photographs from the New NYC Underground
Boats constructed from the refuse of New York City; parties with flames in abandoned buildings; concerts where the crowd consumes the band in a frenzy. These are the DIY and dirty scenes of the city that Tod Seelie has spent around 15 years photographing …