Decadence and decay, freedom and friends: Peter Hujar’s 1976 photo book captures the utopia of dystopia. Portraits in Life and Death, by Peter Hujar, foreword by Benjamin Moser, introduct…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMA new book by Annalee Newitz chronicles the use of storytelling as propagandistic tool. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind, by Annalee Newitz, W. W. Norton, 24…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMThe radical visionary who created a psychotherapeutic collective in Vichy France. Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut, installation view. Courtesy America…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMOf blood and beauty: a rerelease of Baudelaire’s 1857 collection, translated by George Dillon and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Flowers of Evil, by Charles Baudelaire, translated by George Dil…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMHawthornian horror gets the postmodern treatment in Daniel Clowes’s latest graphic novel. Monica, by Daniel Clowes, Fantagraphics Books, 106 pages, $30 • • • In 2016, …
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PMNEWS bulletin from the spirit world: The specter of Edward Gorey, who died in 2000 at the age of 75, is haunting our collective unconscious.
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