“She is lying naked on her back on a marble bench in an open place with no walls or ceilings.”
—Sinan Antoon, The Corpse Washer
“Joe, the manager of the Rose Clothing Company’s sales department, clamps a briefcase under his arm as he passes through the narrow streets that lead to his office.”
—Can Xue, The Last Lover
Art can speak to us in many ways
“I live on a core of sedimentary and igneous rock surrounded by coral reefs, part of the arc of islands that encloses the Caribbean basin; on clear afternoons I can see the outline of the mountains on the northern coast of South America.”
—Tip Marugg, The Roar of Morning
Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and other female Abstract Expressionists are finally getting their due.
Rutgers professor Joan Marter discusses the recently-published book she edited: Women of Abstract Expressionism, which delves into the lives and artwork of dozens of women artists in America in the 1940s and 1950s who painted in the style that would come to be known as Abstract Expressionism.
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Here are a few of our favorite books coming out this month. What are you reading this summer?
Web Style Guide, 4th Edition: Foundations of User Experience Design by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton; Foreword by Ethan Marcotte:
Little Jewel by Patrick Modiano; Translated from the French by Penny Hueston: A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers
Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook by Clive James: A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen
The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death by Andrew Stark: A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion
Dream big and challenge yourself to achieve it
“We wrap in cloth an extremely injured and infantile acoustic nudity, which remains without expression deep within us.”
—Pascal Quignard, The Hatred of Music
With the Presidential Election heating up, Lasswell gives us the secret to politics
“As soon as she arrived she went straight to the kitchen to see if the monkey was there. It was.”
—Liliana Heker, Please Talk to Me
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