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A Palestinian Poet’s Fragmented Grief
In Border Wisdom, Ahmad Almallah embraces the fissures that language cannot mend.
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From Blog to Book
Three of Hyperallergic’s writers talk about the journeys that took them from writing blog posts to publishing full-length books on the politics of memes, the battles over America's monuments, and forgotten World War II heroes.
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John Berger Lost His Eyesight to Cataracts and Learned to See
After being afflicted with cataracts, the late critic and novelist reflected on the mechanics of sight.
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12 Graphic Novels to Read This Spring
Get your comic fix with moving, witty, poignant books by Ai Weiwei, Tessa Hulls, Julia Wertz, Mattie Lubchansky, and more.
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Why We Still Need the Godzilla Network
If there’s a lesson from the Godzilla anthology, it’s that Asian-American art is deeply complex, much like the many manifestations of Godzilla the monster.
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The Tragic, Poetic, and Ironic Ways in Which Artists Die
A new book by former Met Museum archivist Jim Moske assembles a haunting and hilarious revue of artist obituaries from 1906 to 1929.
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Decolonizing Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
Nikesha Breeze’s A Mutiny of Morning reclaims African voices from the controversial novel.
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A True and Exact History of Queer Indigenous Sovereignty
Miss Chief, artist Kent Monkman’s alter ego, narrates the story of Turtle Island not as a settler allegory but from the perspective of the land itself.
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Envisioning Kashmir’s Future Through Paint and Verse
Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock responded to Kashmiri artist Masood Hussain’s watercolors of his homeland, crafting an intimate portrait of the occupied region’s past and future.
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The Legends, Luxuries, and Dreams of Imperial Mughal Ateliers
In Brush of Insight, Yael Rice charts a Mughal “visual economy” thriving between the 16th and early 17th centuries in India.
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8 Art Books to Read This March
Meret Oppenheim’s poetry, Pao Houa Her’s first monograph, the journals of Charles Burchfield, subway art around New York City, and more.
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New Book Explores M.C. Escher’s Lesser-Known Works
Previously unpublished pieces from the artist’s oeuvre trace the origins of his unique perspective.