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Posted on May 28, 2020May 31, 2020 Review

What Fools These Mortals Be A review of Immortal by Maija Tammi and Ville Tietäväinen

In the new photobook Immortal: Lost Memoirs of Cornelia Dulac Concerning the Freshwater Polyp Hydra, authors Maija Tammi and Ville Tietäväinen give us a fictionalized account of true scientific studies of Hydra—a biological immortal.

Posted on February 16, 2020February 16, 2020 Review

Lost in the Mind: The Self-Absorption of Creation On Patricia Townsend's book Creative States of Mind

Creation may be the most perfect collaboration of the internal and external: it is where ideation meets materialization. It makes sense then, that to better understand the process of creation, it behooves us to better understand the mind. In her new book, Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s...

Posted on July 12, 2019July 12, 2019 Review

Olafur Eliasson’s Art of Playful Seriousness A review of the Tate Modern exhibition Olafur Eliasson: In Real Life

From now until 5 January 2020 at the Tate Modern: a mid-career survey of the works of Olafur Eliasson: life-size encounters that engage and confound the senses to trigger what can only be called “experiences.”

Posted on June 23, 2019April 28, 2020 Review

Values as Stars to Steer By A review of Well-Being as Value Fulfillment by Valerie Tiberius

In her new book Well-Being as Value Fulfillment, Valerie Tiberius tries to address the question from the a life well-lived perspective of others; that is, how we can help others in a meaningful way beyond dispensing advice, wringing our hands at their dilemmas, or walking away in frustration when—according to us—they just won’t help themselves.

Posted on February 2, 2019April 28, 2020 Review

Unprepossessed: Zanele Muholi’s self-ownership

In the photobook Somnyama Ngonyama, South African visual activist Zanele Muholi creates an identity, performs an identity, dismantles an identity, confronts with identity.

Posted on July 20, 2018July 20, 2018 Review

Let Me Fall Again A review of Julia Borissova's photobook Let Me Fall Again

In her most recent photobook, Let Me Fall Again, photographer and bookmaker Julia Borissova presents a part-factual, part-imagined construction of the life of Charles Leroux, a professional jumper.

Posted on April 17, 2018April 28, 2020 Review

#Blessed: On False Gratitude

In her new book Everything Happens for a Reason, divinity professor Kate Bowler writes openly about her own confrontation with death, and how this fits in with the prosperity gospel.

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