Joan Mitchell
By: Sarah Roberts
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mi…
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1. Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
By: Patricia Albers
3.91
Format: 2 pages, Hardcover
"Gee, Joan, if only you were French and male and dead." --New York art dealer to Joan Mitchell, the… read more
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2. The Postcard
By: Anne Berest
4.37
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more
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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"-Anne Berest, The Postcard
3. Time Is a Mother
By: Ocean Vuong
3.94
Format: 114 pages, Hardcover
In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more
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4. Day
By: Michael Cunningham
3.57
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more
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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"-Michael Cunningham, Day
5. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
6. The Library Book
By: Susan Orlean
3.89
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more
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- nonfiction
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."-Susan Orlean, The Library Book
7. Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us
By: Susan Magsamen
3.91
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brai… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
8. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
9. Everybody: A Book About Freedom
By: Olivia Laing
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power… read more
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10. Winter Recipes from the Collective
By: Louise Glück
3.99
Format: 46 pages, Hardcover
The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück's thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in t… read more
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"If you can't read, my sister said, can you be happy?"-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"The part of life devoted to contemplation was at odds with the part committed to action."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"I have never been much good with living things. Brightness and darkness I do rather well with."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
"Look at us, she said. We are all of us in this room still waiting to be transformed. This is why we search for love. We search for it all of our lives, even after we find it."-Louise Glück, Winter Recipes from the Collective
11. Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
By: Matti Friedman
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The incredible never-before-told story of Leonard Cohen's 1973 tour of Israel during the Yom Kippur… read more
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12. Something to Hide (Inspector Lynley, #21)
By: Elizabeth George
4.17
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley… read more
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13. Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
By: Mary Gabriel
4.52
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and… read more
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- nonfiction
14. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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- nonfiction
15. Wild Textiles: Grown, Foraged, Found
By: Alice Fox
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A guide to harnessing the world of nature to create sustainable textile art. Textile artist Alice … read more
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16. The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011
By: Edith Schloss
3.98
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their… read more
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17. Joan Mitchell
By: Sarah Roberts
4.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mi… read more
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18. David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, 2020
By: David Hockney
4.60
Format: 168 pages, Hardcover
At the beginning of 2020, just as global Covid-19 restrictions were coming into force, the artist D… read more
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19. Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe
By: Karen Patterson
4.73
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Recent years have seen an enormous surge of interest in fiber arts, with works made of thread on di… read more
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