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Reflections of America in a British's Author's Wall
The nightmares in John Lanchester's The Wall seem like a logical endpoint of the West's recent relapse into chauvinistic nationalism.
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Ilya Kabakov Harnesses His Inner Misanthrope to Maintain Artistic Independence
Ilya Kabakov's essays allow for a close look at the artist’s nonconformist path as an artist in the USSR and the USA.
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A Series of Spells Conjured in Graphite and Watercolor
A Book of Staves by artist Jesse Bransford features painted charms inspired by Icelandic magic.
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A Close Look at the Art of Genji
The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion serves as a thorough introduction to a work of great literary and art-historical importance.
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The Poetry of Psychoanalysis
Jasmine Gibson’s training as a psychoanalyst seems to permeate the organization of her poems’ imagery.
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Dora Malech's Formal Feelings
Malech poems foreground the beauty and power of form in her willingness to follow its constraints uncertain of the end result.
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The 1980s in New York
New books by Ingrid Sischy and Gary Indiana expand our understanding of a crucial decade.
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Politicize Your Bookshelf with Colorful, Codified Stickers
Shelf Life, a take-home exercise, makes you think more deeply about the paradigms you might be absorbing, perhaps unconsciously, from your own book collection.
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The Early History of Women in the Digital Arts
New Media Futures is poised to become a valuable study tool for those interested in the intersection between art, women artists, and technology.
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Gary Indiana's Helter-Skelter Prose Experiments
In the 1980s I religiously read Indiana's weekly, polemical Voice dispatches in which he described the ills of US society from the point of view of an energetic, radical, gay critic absent art bona fides.
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A Poet’s Heartfelt Biography of Cy Twombly
Joshua Rivkin, a poet himself, passionately admires Twombly’s art and feels compelled to understand the man who made it.
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A Potent, Personal Comic on Women’s Work and Anger
In This Woman's Work, Julie Delporte reflects on the limitations of being a woman.