Books
July 7, 2020
The Ethics of Examining the Swastika, the Energizer Bunny of Hate Symbols
Steven Heller’s latest edition of The Swastika and Symbols of Hate begs the question: if one were truly interested in divesting the symbol of its power, would it not be better to let it fall into the dustbin of history?
Sarah Rose Sharp
What we've been reading during quarantine...
Olivia Laing’s Essays Make a Case for Why Art Matters in Turbulent Times
As exterior life shuts temporarily down, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency is a useful reminder that connection can be intellectual as well as physical.
Lily Meyer
In Carmen Maria Machado’s Experimental Memoir, a House Is More Nightmare Than Dream
Focusing on relationships between women, Machado also considers how heterosexual relationships shape and limit our understanding of what constitutes partner abuse.
Kate Silzer
A Minimalism of Ideas, Rather Than Things
In The Longing for Less author Kyle Chayka searches for a minimalist mindset that isn’t “obsessing over possessions or the lack thereof but challenging our day-to-day experience of being in the world.”
Layla Fassa
Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
Marcella Durand
A Queer, South Asian Utopia Comes to Life in This Graphic Novel
Bishakh Som’s Apsara Engine imagines what happens when femmes, as Donna Haraway writes, “make kin, not babies.”
Bedatri D. Choudhury
Van Gogh and the Books He Loved
To Vincent van Gogh, books were calls to action, lessons in life. Vincent’s Books: Van Gogh and the Writers Who Inspired Him by Mariella Guzzoni tells us in much greater detail about all those books he read, and when and why he did so.
Michael Glover
Wanda Coleman, the Great Poet of Los Angeles
Coleman not only embraces her multitudes, but changes effortlessly from one persona and voice to another — things she needed to do in order to survive as a single Black mother raising two children in Los Angeles.
John Yau
28 Years of Miranda July, Master of Self-Fashioning
Titled simply Miranda July, Prestel’s excellent new “mid-career retrospective” of the artist highlights July’s enduring interest in the very darkest aspects of human existence.
Naomi Polonsky
John Cage, Forager of Music and Mushrooms
No matter how much one knows about the artist or mycology, John Cage: A Mycological Foray surprises with its ode to continuous wonder.
Victoria Nebolsin
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