“Directing readers to buy their books from Amazon is harmful to the authors, and the publishers, whose work you are trying to support,” reads a letter encouraging independent media resources to use platforms like Bookshop.
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What Hyperallergic Is Reading Right Now
Hyperallergic staff are all working from home these days and we thought we’d share what we’ve been reading in our private moments offline.
A New Abolitionist Book Club in NYC Aims to Improve Literacy About Incarceration
The book club’s first selection is Angela Davis’s Are Prisons Obsolete?. The monthly gatherings will be held at Bluestockings Bookstore, Café, & Activist Center in Manhattan.
Best of 2019: Our Top 25 Books
Here are our favorite books of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
Visions of the World as a Brutal Dystopia
Author Luke O’Neil will read passages from his brutal new book Welcome to Hell World, a text that starkly explores grim current events in the United States.
Turning Trauma Into Images of Power and Celebration
Ruben Natal-San Miguel’s photographs transform a series of traumatic events into empathetic energy. His new book, Harlem, takes that human connection further.
Looking at Asian-Pacific Art Through the Weather
Absolute Humidity provides a timely glimpse of the worlds across the Asia-Pacific and the artists the region has produced.
How Our Relationship to Books Has Changed Throughout History
Amaranth Borsuk’s The Book traces how the nature of reading changed from an activity practiced by a small number of scholars to a pastime of the masses.
How Frederic Tuten Became a Writer
Each chapter of Tuten’s memoir precisely details a specific moment of realization, however wayward and, at times, harrowing.
A Love Note to the Quirky South
Decades in the making, the late poet Jonathan Williams’s photo-filled travelogue captures the creative spirit of a region.
Photographs from the Wildest Places on Earth
Peter and Beverly Pickford traveled to all seven continents for the stunning photographs in Wild Land: A Journey into the Earth’s Last Wilds.