AFTER THOUGHTS: Atom Egoyan and Nadifa Mohamed discuss problems of translation and trauma in The Sweet Hereafter
Books issue, 2019 | Issue 79 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
- EDITOR’S LETTER by Masoud Golsorkhi
- PRE-FALL 2019 by Caroline Issa
- THE AUTHOR IS ABSENT: photography by Sohrab Golsorkhi-Ainslie, styling by Caroline Issa
- GALA’S OCEAN: photography by Johnny Kangasniemi, styling by Caroline Issa
- BOTTEGA'S NEW OBJECTIVITY: photography by Anthony Seklaoui, styling by Caroline Issa
- TABLE MANNERS: haute food and haute joaillerie
books
- TANK SUMMER READER 2019: the fifth edition of our annual review of the best new books. Selected with guest editors, Barbara Epler, Lisa Pearson and Urvashi Butalia
- HOW TO DO NOTHING by Jenny Odell
- WILD MILK by Sabrina Orah Mark
- SPECIMENS OF HAIR: The Curious Collection of Peter A. Browne
- THE HEIGHTS by Matthew Porter
- THE SKIN IS THE ELASTIC COVERING THAT ENCASES THE ENTIRE BODY by Bjorn Rasmussen
- GRENADE IN MOUTH by Miyo Vestrini
- CASUAL RELATIONSHIPS by Max Creasy
- Adrian Piper: A SYNTHESIS OF INTUITIONS
- THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS by Rosie Cooper, Sarah McCrory and Lynne Warren
- W.E.B. Du Bois's DATA PORTRAITS
- DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR by Emma Dabiri
- RESTRICTED IMAGES by Patrick Waterhouse
- THE BAREFOOT WOMAN by Scholastique Mukasonga
- UNTIL THE LIONS by Karthika Naïr
- SPACE DOGS by Martin Parr and Richard Hollingham
- LUPITA, I'VE KEPT YOU AN APRICOT ON THE TREE, I'VE TOLD IT TO WAIT FOR YOU by Guadalupe Ruiz
- CONCORDANCE by Susan Howe
- THE GOVERNESSES by Anne Serre
- HINGE PICTURES edited by Andrea Andersson
- THE SOCIAL PHOTO by Nathan Jurgenson
- PORTRAITS OF IMAGINARY PEOPLE by Mike Tyka
- BEING NUMEROUS by Natasha Lennard
- SAUPTIK by Amruta Patil
- STAR by Yukio Mishima
- PHOTOGRAPHS by Jack Davison
- THE WIND THAT LAYS WASTE by Selva Almada
- BUBBLETECTURE by Sharon Francis
- A LIFE LESS ORDINARY by Baby Halder
- INTEROGATING MY CHANDAL LIFE by Manoranjan Byapari
- CHANGES: NOTES ON CHOREOGRAPHY by Merce Cunningham
- FROCK CONSCIOUSNESS: Writing about Clothes
- THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS by Esmé Weijun Wang
- Unclaimed Harvest: An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement
- RUTH ASAWA edited by Tiffany Bell and Robert Storr
- THE DRY HEART by Natalia Ginzburg
- UNDOING IMPUNITY by V. Geetha
- OVAL by Elvia Wilk
- CONCRETE OCTOPUS by Osamu Kanemura
- BERG by Ann Quin
- MORPH by Polly Borland
- CONGREGATION by Sophie Green
- THREE WOMEN by Lisa Taddeo
- CASPIAN by Chloe Dewe Mathews
- FLASHBACK HOTEL by Ivan Vladislavić
- BETWEEN WORLDS: THE ART OF BILL TRAYLOR by Leslie Umberger
- INDIA MOVING by Chinmay Tumbe
- TIMELESS TRUCKS ON ENDLESS ROADS by Paul Veysseyre
- THIS SIDE, THAT SIDE by Vishwajyoti Ghosh
- OOBANKEN by Jerome Ming
- INTERMEDIA, FLUXUS AND THE SOMETHING ELSE PRESS: SELECTED WRITINGS by Dick Higgins
- BINSTEAD‘s SAFARI by Rachel Ingalls
- PROLETERKA by Fleur Jaeggy
- WINDOWPANE by Joe Kessler
- MALINA by Ingeborg Bachmann
- THE LIBERATION OF SITA by Volga
- IDEAS HAVE NO SMELL: Three Belgian Surrealist Booklets by Paul Nougé, Paul Colinet and Louis Scutenaire
- SIMONE FORTI: The Bear in the Mirror
- DOOMSTEAD DAYS by Brian Teare
- TOO FAMILIAR TO IGNORE, TOO DIFFERENT TO TOLERATE by Christian Tunge
- REMEDIOS VARO: Letters, Dreams & Other Writings
- MIRROR, MIRROR: This is Not a Drill
features
talks
- ADAM TOOZE: “The first-term Obama administration was still Clinton’s Democratic Party; the second term was full of people from Google.”
- IRA BRAND: “I think the more rules there are the less possibility there is to discover something new.”
- MICHAEL EARL CRAIG: “There are ways in which poetry fails to behave like poetry.”
- YASMINE EL RASHIDI: “It took leaving to understand that I need to be here.”
- KATHLEEN STEWART: “Worlding is a register of living with and through things.”
- BEN OKRI: “The thing that we're most in danger of losing is the thing we sometimes seem to abound in.”
- NICOLE FLATTERY: “I’m not particularly interested in having everything explained to me.”
- SUSANNA BROWN: “An image on Instagram can speak to people in much the same way that a stained-glass window can.”
- ELVIA WILK: “Stories can provide access to large-scale, otherwise incomprehensible systems.”
- SIMONE FATTAL: “In Lebanon, the sun eats the colour.”
