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A Black-and-White World Beneath the Ocean
"The images in this book are a reflection of what I hear beneath the waves," photographer Christian Vizl writes in Silent Kingdom: A World Beneath the Waves, his stunning book of undersea photography.
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David Bezmozgis's Strangers in a Strange Land
Nostalgia and despair form the emotional undercurrent of these stories about the afterlife of an immigrant childhood.
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Lyn Hejinian Imagines Life on Mars
The poet challenges assumptions about how thinking is a form of language.
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Where the Billionaire Buyers Are
In BOOM: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art, Michael Shnayerson paints a vivid portrait of the dizzying ascent of the contemporary art market and the powerful succession of dealers responsible for its rise.
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The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism
Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company's history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.
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Andy Warhol's "Screen Tests" Inspire an Investigation into Criticism, Failure, and Time
Kate Zambreno's Screen Tests show us that all good criticism is about what it means to look, slowly and closely.
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A Modernist Sculptor Finds a Language in the Canadian Landscape
Murray’s sculpture develops a unique perspective, despite synthesizing many aspects and themes of contemporary sculpture emerging from New York in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Chantal Akerman's Painful Final Memoir
Almost four years after her death, My Mother Laughs, the last book by the pioneering director, has been translated into English.
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The Layered Nature of Artifice in a Book About a 16th-Century Naturalist
Insect Artifice is divided into two parts: one consisting of an intellectual biography of Joris Hoefnagel, and another, which analyzes Hoefnagel’s seminal work Four Elements, a compendium of the known animal world.
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A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles
With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.
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The Unreality of Everyday Life
What makes Ha Seong-nan's Flowers of Mold so powerful is her ability to reveal the almost imperceptible slippage between actual events and the protagonists' perceptions.
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Remembering Eva Palmer Sikelianos, the Artist Who Lived Like an Ancient Greek
An illuminating biography by Artemis Leontis reveals the little-known story of Eva’s mission to revive an ancient culture.