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A Close, Dazzling Look at Michelangelo’s Painting
Leo Steinberg’s compelling essays pull you into the interpretative process, asking you to see the drama he unpacks.
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Journalist Jeff Sharlet Turns His Attention to Visual Storytelling
Time and night form Sharlet’s central theme: people who inhabit the night, literally and figuratively.
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Barry Schwabsky Values the Viewer in His New Book of Essays
In The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting, Schwabsky’s readable and often chirpy essays philosophically examine what painting is and can become through an observer’s encounter.
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A Kuwaiti Artist Photographs Women in the Intimate Sanctuary of Their Bedrooms
With her latest photography book, Maha Alasaker offers an authentic glimpse into the daily lives of Kuwaiti women, untainted by orientalist prejudice.
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Eileen Myles Listens for the "Pulse Outside" Their Home
Myles’s poems walk and shift with all their pieces sloshing this way and that, and invite the reader for the ride.
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A Writer-Turned-Filmmaker Hits the Sweet Spot of Historical Fiction
With his latest novel Yellow Earth, Sayles showcases his knack for capturing the character of a region and the real-life ramifications of political and social issues.
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In Sienese Paintings a Writer Finds Sanctuaries that Allow Him to Grieve
While in Siena, memoir author Hisham Matar turns to his own love of paintings by the Sienese School,and spends hours, days even, in front of a single work.
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Friends and Critics Remember Manny Farber's Life as an Artist
Manny Farber: Paintings and Writings is the first comprehensive overview of the renowned film critic's work as a painter.
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An Evolution of Style in Three Poets
I love discovering new voices, but there’s much to be said for following poets over the course of their careers, watching their styles evolve, their attentions shift.
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Raymond Roussel's Stories Are Based on Complex Word Games
A precursor to literary surrealism, Roussel employed pastiche and mathematics to prioritize form over content.
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An Afro-futuristic World Where the Kids Are Alright but Looking for More
In GLEEM, Freddy Carasco's latest graphic novel, the itchy energy of youth is ready to burst forth, right off the page.
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Welcome Back, William Gibson
In Agency, Gibson’s unequaled sequel to The Peripheral (2014), characters return from the future, virtually and with a vengeance.