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Work won’t love you back. We all know this, but laboring in the creative industries has a way of clouding our ability to see through the “labor of love” myth. Eliza Levinson unpacks a fascinating recent book by Sarah Jaffe, which, among many things, “lays bare our assumptions about which kinds of jobs are ‘truly’ exploitative.”

On a more summery note, Esmé Hogeveen dives into the bright hues of Wild Flowers, a welcome re-issue of Joel Meyerowitz’s 1983 photo book.

Happy reading,

— Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

Joel Meyerowitz's "Wild Flowers" Is a Reminder That the World Is Still Blooming

In its expanded new edition, Meyerowitz’s photo book makes incidental details the leading characters.

Esmé Hogeveen

Art and Labor

Work (Even the Creative Kind) Won’t Love You Back

Amid the recent wave of art worker unionizing, Sarah Jaffee’s Work Won’t Love You Back offers some instructive takeaways for understanding the trap of that persistent Neoliberal myth: the “labor of love.”

Eliza Levinson

Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity

Emily Segal’s Mercury Retrograde provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York’s creative community.

Kate Silzer

Writers Inspired by Writers

Nathaniel Tarn's Ode to Romanticism

Tarn’s meditation on the German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin explores both human ecstasy and suffering.

Joseph Donahue

Fredric Jameson's Deep Dive Into Walter Benjamin

The Benjamin Files by Fredric Jameson explains everything by reference to everything else, in a way that often makes the narrative all but impenetrable.

David Carrier

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