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2020: A Year Like No Other, Captured in Photos
Magnum 2020 revisits the uncertainties and upheavals of last year through 60 photographers around the world. | Lauren Moya Ford
Invisible Racism in the Old West
In his debut novel, Tom Lin underscores the invisibility of the Chinese to white Americans in late 19th-century United States. | John Yau
Humankind’s History of Betraying Animals
Thalia Field’s poems collage scientific, historical, and philosophical sources to explore speciesism. | Carl Little
A Tango with Intuition and the Unconscious
Alan Gilbert's poems unpack the quotidian nature of life to depict a trippy, scatological dystopia. | Jeremy Sigler
Uncanny Images of Iran’s Windswept Coasts
Hoda Afshar’s images capture craggy, Martian-red rock formations and poetic moments of communion between individuals and landscapes. | Sarah Rose Sharp
Gleefully Voyeuristic, Sara Cwynar Invites Us to Spy on the Workings of Consumerism
Amidst the frenzy of accelerated consumption and existential doom, Glass Life provides a lucid meditation on how and why we consume. | Isabel Ling
A Spellbinding Approach to Film Criticism
Erika Balsom’s latest book advocates for the possibilities of film criticism — a splitting open of countless pathways that reveal and deepen but never exhaust. | Katherine Connell
The Nuances of Loneliness
In a new graphic nonfiction book, Kristen Radtke interrogates this pervasive but often shame-filled aspect of the human condition. | Erin Langner
