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America's Racist War on Drugs Explored in Comics
Philadelphia cartoonist Box Brown examines marijuana — where it came from, its life in the US, and, importantly, the breathless national campaign to demonize a certain segment of its users.
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A New Biography Paints a Colorful Portrait of Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius
In Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, author Fiona MacCarthy attempts to debunk the myth that the German pioneer of modernist architecture is somehow an unsexy subject for biographical study.
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How Painting Survives in the Digital Era
In her new book, The Love of Painting: Genealogy of a Success Medium, critic Isabelle Graw ruminates on how painting remains omnipresent within the contemporary capitalist system and digital economy.
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When Will Ralph Eugene Meatyard Get the Retrospective He Deserves?
Meatyard’s use of masks, shadows, abandoned houses, and figures in motion open up a deep and multi-layered place of feeling that we have yet to fully address.
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A Palestinian Poet’s Elegiac Musings on Exile and Neurosis
Hala Alyan’s new book of poetry, The Twenty-Ninth Year, explores a shattered woman’s psyche.
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The Radical Activist Ambitions of New Left Cinema
A new book chronicles how leftist directors of the 1960s and '70s used the essay film as an activist tool.
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César Aira’s Memoir Responds to an Existentialist Crisis
Whatever might be truth or fiction in Birthday is used in service of the book’s main question: What has been the purpose of the author's life?
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A Book Attempts to Solve the Joys and Mysteries of Puzzles
Oftentimes it feels as though art satisfies itself by “raising the question” or “complicating ideas” about a subject. Puzzles, by contrast, hold an inherent promise of resolution.
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How Frederic Tuten Became a Writer
Each chapter of Tuten's memoir precisely details a specific moment of realization, however wayward and, at times, harrowing.
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A Love Note to the Quirky South
Decades in the making, the late poet Jonathan Williams’s photo-filled travelogue captures the creative spirit of a region.
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Etel Adnan, the Eternal Voyager, Captured in a New Biography
Author Kaelen Wilson-Goldie reveals the radical power of abstract painter Etel Adnan’s life and work in a new book.
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The Real Life Dilemma of an Artist with Bipolar Disorder
Yet at age 19, Rachel Lindsay was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and then realized that upon graduating, she had to be shackled to a corporate job that would provide steady income and much coveted health benefits.