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The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. Rachel Kushner’s novel of a radical French collective, espionage, and Neanderthal revivalism
Fiction – Bookforum Magazine
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. MEET THE CAST: David Crader, a washed-up child actor, author of the celebrity memoir that constitutes the bulk of Justin Taylor’s second novel, Reboot; Amber, David’s long-suffering second ex-wife, mother of his child, in whose life David appears, in his own words, as “an occasional cameo”; Grace Travis, David’s first ex-wife and …
Christopher Lyon on the season’s standout art, photography, and …
The Vancouver-based artist’s 2010 collection, I Wonder, amply displayed her design virtuosity: letterforms growing swirls and curlicues, like a figure skater’s trail on ice, and intricate border and background designs, assembled in a gorgeous—if a bit airless—small-format volume. Her thumping new fourteen-inch-tall monograph, in which ...
Culture – Bookforum Magazine
The online edition of Bookforum Magazine. THE FIRST THING I NOTICED about 1962’s Cléo from 5 to 7, one of the more enduring hits from filmmaker and artist Agnès Varda, is that the run time is not two hours but ninety minutes.
A million-dollar novel...? - Bookforum Magazine
2014年10月8日 · The Washington Post will get a boost from Amazon’s Kindle: the Post is developing an app that will compress the daily paper into a tablet-friendly format, free for Kindle owners. Here’s an excerpt from John Jeremiah Sullivan’s introduction to Best American Essays 2014, which comes out this week.
The Alice Awards; a guide to the National Book Award
2014年10月16日 · The magazine, which began a relaunch process in 2010, will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in 2015. (The relaunch has so far involved changing the print format from newsprint broadside to glossy full-color and redesigning the website.)
Kevin Erskine’s Supercell - Albert Mobilio - Bookforum Magazine
Erskine’s large-format photographs extend and deepen, via meteorological specificity, this tradition of staging empyrean tumult. A longtime “storm chaser,” he has produced a catalogue of atmospheric sculptures whose monikers—wall cloud, mammatus, inflow band, mothership—evoke, as do the images themselves, both the primal and the ...
Oct 21, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
2011年10月21日 · Simon & Schuster’s author portal now lets its writers see their all their sales data, broken down by format. Now that his journals are out, read Spalding Gray’s 1986 interview with BOMB. Apple’s new virtual newsstand —an app that lets iPad and iPhone users store their digital publications—has led to a big spike in magazine downloads.
Richard Mosse’s Infra - Jessica Loudis - Bookforum Magazine
Instead, he works with a wooden large-format camera and Kodak Aerochrome—an infrared film used for military aerial surveillance and Jimi Hendrix album covers before it was taken off the market two years ago—to render the Congo in a lurid hot pink that recalls the chromatic fashions of its urban sapeur subculture. He then titles his photos ...
The Times's disappearing Zizek retraction - Bookforum Magazine
2014年9月15日 · Slavoj Zizek. Last week, the New York Times issued a letter claiming that Slavoj Zizek plagiarized himself in his Op-Ed “ISIS Is a True Disgrace to Fundamentalism,” which ran in the paper on September 3.
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