Books
June 22, 2020
An Essential Reading List for Black Liberation, Brought to You by the Schomburg Center
The center’s staff and curators chose 95 books by Black authors, including titles by James Baldwin, Saidiya Hartman, Jesmyn Ward, Deborah Willis, and Colson Whitehead.
Valentina Di Liscia
Alice Trumbull Mason, a Pioneer of Abstraction, Makes a Triumphant Return
Emily Mason remembers her mother saying, “I’ll be famous when I’m dead.” Though fame may not be quite secured (yet), the artist’s first-ever monograph acts as bulwark against forgetting her legacy.
Bridget Quinn
Bernadette Mayer Evokes the Banality and Urgency of the Quotidian
In Memory, the poet shapes a new visual and textual language that explores the simmering possibilities of consciousness.
Marcella Durand
Memoir as the Fragments of Memory
When Michel Leiris died in 1990 at age 89 he was a canonical figure in France, mainly for having remade the genre of memoir in his own image.
Tim Keane
Van Gogh and the Books He Loved
To Vincent, books were calls to action, lessons in life.
Michael Glover
On the Figurative Road
Alice Notley’s book-length poem charts the journey during which we assess the value of words and their historical contexts.
Jon Curley
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