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Show & Tell: On Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Self-assuredness has always been part of Joan Didion’s appeal. Guesswork and rumination are out of sight, somewhere in the drafts....
100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
100 Boyfriends, Brontez Purnell’s latest book, is a beautifully acerbic and transgressively messy portrait of queer existence—and persistence—that celebrates implosion...
Lorraine O’Grady: Writing in Space, 1973–2019
While on a Schomburg Center fellowship in the summer of 2017, I came across Mlle Bourgeoise Noire Costume (1980), arguably...
Lucia Berlin: Evening in Paradise and Welcome Home
Schoolteacher, dressmaker, cleaning woman, ER clerk, switchboard operator, oral historian: these were a few of the jobs that occupied Lucia...
Open Architecture
Subjects, Not Objects—Hospitality Through Open Architecture. Rather than espousing a syncretic approach, architecture has been preoccupied for decades with either...