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Celebrating the "Wild Ladies" of Japanese Folklore
Aoko Matsuda's Where the Wild Ladies Are offers a fresh critique of Japan’s stance towards women.
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The Monumental and Human Poetry of Paul Valéry
The beauty and power of Valéry's best writing is undeniable, and the human dilemmas his work addresses remain with us.
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Climbing a Symbolic Mountain With a Surrealist Writer
Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal's cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.
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Peeling Back the Hidden, Colonial Layers of Museum Objects
With her recent book, Alice Procter shows us the things many museums hide, the parts of objects’ histories that aren’t warm and fuzzy (or flattering for the institutions that now hold them).
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40 Artists and Writers Respond to 40 Objects “Mistaken” for Guns by the Police
The book This Is Not a Gun collects personal responses to these objects, which include a cell phone, hairbrush, Wii remote, and underwear.
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Step Into a Mysterious Photography Studio From the 1850s
Predicting the Past—Zohar Studios: The Lost Years presents the mythical world of a Lower East Side photography studio, founded by an Eastern European Jewish immigrant in the 1850s.
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A Poet Defends the Earth
Susan Barba's poems are both environmental plea and protest, at once personal and broad.
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Enter the Humorously Awkward World of a “Long-Distance Cartoonist”
Brilliantly paced, Adrian Tomine’s latest graphic novel takes readers from discomfort to laughter in just a few panels.
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Shaking Up the Ethnographic Museum
In a new book, the curator and art historian Clémentine Deliss proposes that “ethnographic” artifacts be reconsidered, remediated — and maybe even returned to their original owners.
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Poetry With a Painterly Eye
The latest poetry collections by Lawrence Giffin and Lesle Lewis use the vocabulary of visual arts to extend poetry's reach.
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Félix Fénéon: Critic, Collector, Anarchist
What is the relationship between Félix Fénéon’s politics and the art he admired?
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Abstract Poetry and the Language of Life
What’s most remarkable about Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter is the palpable sense that the author is translating life into language.