Some of our favorite books of 2019!
Favorite Art Books;
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Medieval Monsters by Lindquist and Mittman
Review in The New York Review of Books
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Ideas (cont.) by Scott Reeder
Review in The New York Times
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Art-Rite by Walter Robinson
Review in 032c
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Writings by Tony Conrad
Review in The New York Times
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Notes and Methods by Hilma Af Klint
Review in The Brooklyn Rail
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Into the Mylar Chamber by Ira Cohen
Review in The October Gallery
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Celebration by WIlliam Klein
Review in The New York Journal of Books
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Chicago Imagists! by The Hayward Gallery
Review in Trebuchet Magazine
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Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design by The Vitra Design Museum
Review in The Guardian
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In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection
Review in Vogue
Cary;
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No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
Review in The Guardian
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Rusty Brown by Chris Ware
Review in The AV Club
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Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf
Review in The Times Literary Supplement
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Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin
NEW IN PAPERBACK!Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon
Review in The New York Times
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The Art of Curiosity by Exploratorium
Details at Exploratorium
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Bowie’s Bookshelf by John O’Connell
Review in Open Culture
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How To Make A Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oaks
Interview in Eco-Age
Gwyn;
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Black Wings Beating by Alex London
Review in Kirkus
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The Farm by Joanne Ramos
Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
Review in Kirkus
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Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
Review in The Guardian
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Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera
Review in Lambda Literary
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The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
Review in Tin Kitchen
Anna;
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Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell
Review in The Wall Street Journal
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Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr by Grant Hayter-Menzies
Review in The Vancouver Sun
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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Review in The New Yorker
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer
Review in The Washington Post
- “Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them.” – Lloyd Alexander
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How To Be Invisible by Kate Bush
Review in The Guardian
Colleen;
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Votes For Women: A Portrait of Persistence edited by Kate Clarke Lemay
Review in The Washington Post
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The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot
Review in The Spectator
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The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon
Review in Kirkus
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The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter
Review in Kirkus
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A Cloud A Day by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
Review in The New York Times
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Brilliant Maps by Ian Wright
Review in The Telegraph
Evan;
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Early Work by Andrew Martin
Review in The New Yorker
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Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson
Review in The LSE Book Review
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Coventry by Rachel Cusk
Review in The New York Review of Books
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Where, When, How Often and with Whom by Cecily Brown
Review in Apollo Magazine
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Marilou Is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith
Review in NPR
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McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
Review in Zyzzyva
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White Girls by Hilton Als
Review in The New York Times
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The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin
Review in The New York Times
Craig;
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Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
Review in The New York Times
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Monstrer, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson
Review in Cemetary Dance
Tiffany;
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The New Black Vanguard by Antwaun Sargent
Review in The New York Times
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Complete Paintings of Gustav Klimt edited by Tobias G. Natter
Review in The New York Times
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New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby
Review in The Guardian
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Who Wet My Pants by Bob Shea
Review in Kirkus
Tracy;
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BiblioStyle by Nina Freudenberger
Review in City Book Review
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The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
Review in The Washington Post
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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Review in Rolling Stone
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Last Day by Domenica Ruta
Review in The New York Times
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My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books
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Laughing With Obama by M. Sweeney
Reviews at GoodReads
Tony;
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Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Review in The New York Times
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The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King
Review in The Washington Post
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The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Review in The Washington Post
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Biasaed by Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Review in The New York Times
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A Warning by Anonymous
Review in The Guardian
- “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” –Stephen King
New & Noteworthy books about Detroit;
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The Dawn of Detroit by Tina Miles
{New in Paperback!) Review in The New York Times
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RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels and ML Liebler
Review at WDET
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The Queen Next Door by Linda Solomon
Review in The Detroit News
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Detroit (Maiden Energy) by Carolyn Striho
Review in The Metro Times
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‘Til Wrong Feels Right by Iggy Pop
Review in Pitchfork
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The Detoit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert
Review in The Gradient