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Why Early Modern European Artists Were Obsessed With Shells
From Leonardo to Rembrandt, artists were drawn to these soft and glowing forms.
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How Black Artists Are Shaping a Distinctly Black Gaze
Cultural and artistic icons are reshaping the circulation of Blackness on a global scale.
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A World Made of Words
Garielle Lutz's sentences are among the most original in modern English, their linguistic specificity making them virtually untranslatable.
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In New Memoir, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Offers Candid Takes on Sex, Gender, Art, and Love
P-Orridge, who helped popularize nonbinary identity, wrote h/er memoir while living out h/er last days with leukemia.
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Invisible Racism in the Old West
In his debut novel, Tom Lin underscores the invisibility of the Chinese to white Americans in late 19th-century United States.
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A Tango with Intuition and the Unconscious
Alan Gilbert's poems unpack the quotidian nature of life to depict a trippy, scatological dystopia.
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2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos
A book forms a disturbing, diverse account of a very turbulent year.
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Gleefully Voyeuristic, Sara Cwynar Invites Us to Spy on the Workings of Consumerism
Amidst the frenzy of accelerated consumption and existential doom, Glass Life provides a lucid meditation on how and why we consume.
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The Nuances of Loneliness
In a new graphic nonfiction book, Kristen Radtke interrogates this pervasive but often shame-filled aspect of the human condition.
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Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field's poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism.
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The Erotic Nostalgia of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Published from the 1950s through 1970s, their covers are colorful, kitschy, and anachronistic.
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A Spellbinding Approach to Film Criticism
Erika Balsom’s latest book advocates for the possibilities of film criticism — a splitting open of countless pathways that reveal and deepen but never exhaust.