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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.
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A Murder Mystery Novel Satirizes the New York Art World
Barbara Bourland's gripping new novel Fake Like Me unfolds at the pace of a thriller but is steeped in contemporary art theory.
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Imagining the Architecture of Our Futures
Paul Dobraszczyk's Future Cities surveys the multitudinous ways creatives have imagined how humans might build their living spaces in the future.
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A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
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A Photographer Sees a Prophecy of Trump's America in Atlantic City
Brian Rose's Atlantic City connects what Trump did in that city as a businessman to what he's doing to the US as president.
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Geoffrey Hill's Darkly Luminous Poetry
Hill worked on The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin for several years before his death, planning no conclusion; the book would simply consist of as many sections as he had completed in his life.
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David Kinloch's Poetry Explores Scottish and Biblical Lore
Kinloch seeks out a Scots "Orpheus" figure who is a merchant, a troubadour, and a juggler.
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A Graphic Novel Gruesomely Satirizes Gentrification in Chicago
Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore's graphic novel BTTM FDRS blends discussions around race relations, cultural appropriation, and urban injustice with body horror and an eerie plot.
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The Many Stories of Stonewall
Attempting to complicate dominant narratives, "The Stonewall Reader" offers a broader, but not always balanced, range of accounts.
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A Poet Yearning for Knowledge
Ron Padgett’s poems make me gnash my teeth.