Here are our favorite books of 2019, brought to you by the writers and editors of Hyperallergic.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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With His Camera, Lewis W. Hine Changed How We See American Labor
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work, a new book from Taschen, chronicles Lewis W. Hine’s early 20th-century career photographing the problems and triumphs of labor.
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An Incredible 19th-Century Hair Collection That Nearly Became Trash
In the mid-1800s, naturalist Peter A. Browne assembled the world’s greatest hair collection to explain the complexity of humanity. In the 1970s, it was saved from the trash by a museum curator.
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The Colorful Cocoons of Hong Kong’s Bamboo Scaffolding
Photographer Peter Steinhauer spent two decades photographing the traditional bamboo scaffolding that endures in Hong Kong.