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The View from the NY Art Book Fair Zine Tent: 8 Zines You Want to Know About
This year's zinesters brought some of the most playful, provocative, and interesting items on display, and here are some notable picks.
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In Passing for Human, Liana Finck Illustrates Her Search for Selfhood
The New Yorker cartoonist calls her new graphic memoir "a neurological coming-of-age story."
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Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
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How a Graphic Novel About 1930s Germany Feels Poignant and Prescient
Jason Lutes's epic graphic novel series Berlin, which began in 1996, comes to a close this year. Little did he know how relevant his books would be.
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A Photographer Focuses on Transhumanism
Showcasing transformational changes in the ways we view our bodies and the possibilities for hybridizing them, Matthieu Gasfou's H+: Transhumanism(s) is both a historical document and a possible warning for the future.
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Connoisseurship Is Not a Dirty Word
Connoisseurship, it is often said, is elitist, Euro-centric, and logo-centric, to employ the fashionable jargon.
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What Is a Poet?
Deeply suspicious of anything that smacks of self-importance, of making a blanket statement or pronouncement, Clark Coolidge resists nailing down what the poet and poem are.
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A Norwegian Tale of Love Is Translated
Originally published in Oslo in 1997 to great acclaim, Hanne Ørstavik's novella Love is a delicate, fragile tale governed by its own laws of narration.
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Marcel Proust’s Dream of Art
Proust’s mid-career struggles with writing led him to art criticism, which provides clues to the qualities prized by readers of In Search of Lost Time.
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Inside Guantanamo Bay: A Photographer Documents America's Most Heavily Guarded Prison
Debi Cornwall offers a vivid and unsettling glimpse of the infamous US detention center in her book Welcome to Camp America: Inside Guantanamo Bay.
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Open Doors and Wounds in David Sedaris's Calypso
David Sedaris's Calypso is an intimate portrait of a writer who has, for so long, shared his entire life with a captivated audience.
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A New Feminist Poetry or a Trudge through Patriarchy
It’s not that Women of Resistance isn’t an excellent cross-section of work by and about the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood; it’s that the intersectional experience of contemporary womanhood is a slog through all the crap that’s been piled on top of us.