Books: The Fascinating Lives of Vincent van Gogh’s Three Sisters

Did you know Vincent van Gogh had three fascinating sisters? Eva Recinos walks us through their lives

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Did you know Vincent van Gogh had three fascinating sisters? Eva Recinos walks us through their lives via a new biography that attempts to bring their ideas, influence, and art out of their famed brother’s shadow.Meanwhile, Majid Maqbool shines a light on Cups of Nun Chai, a photography and oral history project by the artist Alana Hunt, which explores a side of Kashmir often omitted from media coverage.Also below: musings on the poetry of Joan Mitchell and Sun Ra. Happy reading.—Dessane Lopez Cassell, Editor, Reviews

The Fascinating Lives of Vincent van Gogh’s Three Sisters The Van Gogh Sisters sheds light on Vincent van Gogh’s place within the family, including a complex relationship with his sisters. Eva Recinos

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"Cups of Nun Chai" Sheds Light on the Kashmir Often Missing From Headlines Alana Hunt’s emphasis on everyday experiences, shared over a cup of tea, counters the normalization of state violence. Majid Maqbool

Michelangelo’s Last Two Decades Were His Busiest and Loneliest William E. Wallace excavates a lesser-known but crucial final chapter of the artist’s approximately 75-year career. Lauren Moya Ford

Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat. Nolan Kelly

Joan Mitchell, More Like a Poet Curators and scholars have increasingly highlighted the importance of poetry to Mitchell’s art, though usually with so much circumspection that the link still remains obscure. Tim Keane

The Absurdly Poignant Poems of Sun Ra Sun Ra’s stanzas are riddles against passive reading. Alex Jen

The Salacious and Scholarly Poems of Yusef Komunyakaa The poet suggests his art’s highest calling isn’t truth-telling but stirring our empathic imagination. Ela Bittencourt

A Poet of Isolation and Uncertainty The poems in Jean Day’s Late Human carry a sense of having arrived at a moment when nothing feels quite right. Mark Scroggins

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