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Alison Bechdel's New Book Offers Some Secrets to “Superhuman Strength”
In her supremely good graphic memoir, Bechdel considers her life-in-workouts, offering some surprising nuggets of wisdom on our endless quests for self-transformation.
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A Deep, Feminist Dive Into Autotheory
Lauren Fournier considers what it means, in the bell hooks sense, to bring everyday life to theory.
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Nathaniel Mackey's Epic Poem
Memories appear and disappear in a meditative work that feels as if it could stop at any moment or continue on forever.
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Poetry at the Intersection of Art and Twitter
The poems in Ken Babstock’s Swivelmount convey a sense that the whole truth of reality is tantalizingly just beyond one’s grasp.
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Laura Raicovich on How to Make Museums “Better for More People”
Hyperallergic talks to the curator, writer, and former museum director about her new book Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.
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Detroit’s Electronic Music Scene, Seen Through Its Black Creators
Electronic Landscapes takes the reader into the storied record shops and cozy home studios of Detroit’s most important musicians.
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Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity
Emily Segal's novel provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York's creative community.
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Joel Meyerowitz’s Wild Flowers Is a Reminder That the World Is Still Blooming
In its expanded new edition, Meyerowitz’s photo book makes incidental details the leading characters.
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A Deep Dive Into Walter Benjamin
The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson explains everything by reference to everything else, in a way that often makes the narrative all but impenetrable.
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Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back
Amid the recent wave of art worker unionizing, Sarah Jaffee’s Work Won’t Love you Back offers some instructive takeaways for understanding the trap of that persistent Neoliberal myth: the “labor of love.”
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Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism
Tarn's meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.
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André Gide's Pioneering Autofiction
Intended as a satire of the Parisian Symbolist milieu, Gide's novel Marshlands is a sendup of writing itself.