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Intertextual Depth in Susan Howe's Debths
These poems collage Paul Thek's art, 19th-century American literature, and a fairy tale to create a fresh understanding of the memory and soul.
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Will Alexander's Celebration of the Possible
Alexander’s poetry is swarming with information from a vast library — like the one lost in Alexandria — that he has absorbed into his bloodstream.
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In Venice, With That Sinking Feeling
The book Migropolis: Venice, edited by Wolfgang Scheppe, examines the migrant and tourist crises afflicting Italy’s fabled “water city.”
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The Blindness of Edgar Degas
His virulent belief system, which led him to cut off his Jewish friends in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair, is unredeemed by his art.
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A Comics Artist Draws on Emotional Isolation and Domestic Strife
In two new comics, Jeff Lemire portrays a pair of families' difficult pasts and the obstacles that crowd their paths ahead.
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Imagine If a Victorian Scientist Studied the Plastic Debris in Our Oceans
Mandy Barker's Beyond Drifting features pollution collected recently on the shores of Ireland, but photographed as if under a 19th-century microscope.
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The Outdated Architecture of Parliaments Around the World
A book by XML is the first to provide a comparative overview of different countries' parliament spaces.
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Self-Immolator: Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Meadow Slasher
In in his new book of poems, Joshua Marie Wilkinson cuts, nicks, and rips the pastoral to achieve terrors both startling and beautiful.
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The Future Seen Through a Fragmented Past
Edward McPherson's collected essays in The History of the Future are a literary kitchen sink in which no event or issue appears more important or relevant than any other.
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Just Say No: Politics and Refusal in '80s-Inspired Literature
In the wake of the 2016 presidential campaign, it feels eerily prescient to read Lauren Levin’s critique of Reagan-era politics.
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How a Chatbot Became a Conceptual Poet
In a conversation with poet Ulf Stolterfoht, a chatbot pushes language towards its breaking point in a way no human could.
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A Performance Artist Explores “the Vast Possibilities of Black Female Subjectivity”
In her memoir Swallow the Fish, Gabrielle Civil examines the narratives she’s ingested since childhood and by which she found herself creatively propelled.