Books
These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.
Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.
In Vlady Kociancich’s newly translated Argentine novel, an indecisive Buenos Aires lawyer wanders through Berlin, cinema, erotic fantasy, and a reality that may be entirely of his own making.
Carter Vaughn Findley’s “Dreams of Empire” charts the endurance, diversity, achievements, and eventual dissolution of a state that bound East and West for nearly six centuries.
In Neil Van Leeuwen’s challenging book, belief and imagination overlap in ways that are provocative, unsettling, and unexpectedly illuminating.
Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon novel sidelines Israeli politics for an unusually timely, expertly paced tale of Russian aggression, drone warfare, and fraying Western alliances.
Terry Chester Shulman’s biography offers a vivid, corrective account of John Barrymore’s artistic greatness, private devastations, and spectacular decline.
From Bob Ross-inspired solace to a celebrated illustrator’s family legacy and a jubilant collaborative mural, these picture books show young readers how making art can build confidence, community, and joy.
Jesse Kauffman’s sweeping history links the imperial collapse of 1905–1921 to the nationalist conflicts that still shape the region today.
This ambitious catalogue is strongest when it treats Rothko’s paintings as shifting perceptual structures—and weakest when it resolves them into metaphysical comfort.
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