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The Evolving Designs of US Voting Ballots
This Is What Democracy Looked Like by Alicia Yin Cheng is the first book of its kind to look at the history of ballot design.
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How Latinx Artists Were Shut Out Of Art History
Arlene Dávila’s Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, Politics considers the plights of Latinx artists through the lens of race and class disparities in both North and South America.
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Mary Cassatt’s Independent, Feminist Spirit
“If the world is to be saved, it will be the women who save it,” said the American Impressionist, who led a headstrong life as a woman abroad.
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How Words Cast Their Spell on a Poet
Geoffrey O'Brien explores language's magic — part sound, part sense, part bodily sensation.
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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.