Books
Author Claire Kohda is particularly deft at illustrating how unacknowledged desire will out, undermining our best intentions.
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This novel of ideas reads like an essay narrated in the first-person by a self-absorbed automaton.
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Graphic novels are wonderfully suited to chronicle the lives and times of artists, designers, architects, and even creative institutions.
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Muse upends convention by examining twenty-nine real life situations that offer a broader, and more generous, view of what a muse can be.
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With gentle humor and insight, Lea Ypi draws rich portraits of the three caring adults she grew up with in the authoritarian world of her childhood in Albania.
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Africa’s Struggle for Its Art usefully charts the prequel to current campaigns pressuring for the return of colonial plunder.
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Nic Caldwell talks with Elizabeth Howard about poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her work, and the recent acquisition of her personal papers for the Morgan Library and Museum collection and the exhibition he curated.
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Sy Montgomery raises the question of our relationship to the world and all its animals and nudges us toward the view that even predators deserve our support and admiration because of the value they bring to our planet.
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We need to realize how important class is in order to understand how inequality can rise as Confederate monuments fall.
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Book Review: “The Poetics of Cruising” — Imaginative Acts of Capture
By exploring the historical and artistic significance of cruising throughout poetry, photography, and visual culture, the book produces a rich and exciting topography of queer culture that posits a reflexive relationship of vicarious cruising between “cruising texts” and their consumers.
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