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Geoffrey O'Brien's Poetics of Compression
The poet casts himself as an escapist reader, amassing archives to be condensed as paraphrase.
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Dissolving the Boundaries of Asian American Fiction
Janalyn Guo takes Asian American fiction to a new place, where old categories no longer apply.
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An English Translation of Belgian Surrealist Writing
Authors Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet, and Louis Scutenaire exhibited a staunch ethic of underground and elliptical obscurity.
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Bill Cunningham’s Posthumous Memoir Isn’t Quite What You’d Expect
In the beloved fashion photographer's posthumous memoir, we get a peek into his origin story.
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Growing Up in the Avant-Garde Circles of Wallace Berman
Through his father, Wallace, Tosh Berman was in the middle of a vivid circle of artists, writers, and musicians who regarded art as the opposite of cultural business.
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Photojournalism in Nashville During the Civil Rights Era
A book of photos of Nashville at the height of the Civil Rights Movement conveys a story of promises both fulfilled and denied.
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A Novel Inspired by Marina Abramović Falls Short of Expectations
Heather Rose's novel The Museum of Modern Love takes the events of Abramović's The Artist Is Present to show how art influences our lives, but in many ways, the writing leaves the reader with a sense of dissatisfaction.
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A Poet Invents Her Voice
Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart is a beautiful monster of a book coming at you straight, with no padding of preface or foreword to warn you what you might be in for.
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Digging Into Memory and Time
John Koethe can be mordant, bleak, anguished, humorous, tender, and even sweet.
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The Curdling of American Masculinity in University Frats
For seven years, Andrew Moisey documented the debauchery of university fraternities. His photographs evince an unsettling ritual of malevolent machismo.
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A MoMA Anthology Conceives of the Art of Central and Eastern Europe Beyond the Post-Communist Lens
The anthology arrives at a crucial time to speak about the art scenes of European post-communist societies and their common conditions of transformation.
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The Iconic Magazine Covers that Changed the World
The oral histories in Iconic Magazine Covers bring the work of producing images that stand the test of time down to earth.