A Blog About Books and Reading
A Blog About Books and Reading
A book about art produced by mentally ill psychiatric patients gave the Nazis cover first to eliminate the art, then to move on to the artists.
The Stanford University professor surveys the literary landscape in the shadow of the online giant.
For the author, the titular condition involves those moments when one is just trying to live one’s life and is suddenly reminded of one’s race.
“It’s difficult to assign a specific cultural meaning to the bad clown, because it is such a malleable archetype,” Radford writes.
The Vancouver journalist’s book chronicles a four-year plunge into the depths of the NXIVM miasma.
From 17th century Gothic novels to the modern-day zombie story, the horror novel continues to fascinate readers and evolve in the literary consciousness.
Though marred by some sloppy writing and digressions, Brown’s book provides a valuable counter to a justice system in thrall to wealth and influence.
As a leader of the Anthropodermic Book Project, Rosenbloom has for years been ensconced in the realm of anthropodermic bibliopegy – in lay terms, the practice of binding books in human skin.
“I realized the adult world was every bit as fucked up as anything else."
The through-line in Thompson’s book involves a historical inability on the part of Western culture to see Black people as fully human.