Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
By: Charles Darwent
3.20
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to Americ…
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1. Nabokov's Dozen: A Collection of Thirteen Stories (Anchor Literary Library)
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.03
Format: 214 pages, Paperback
Nabokov's Dozen (1958) a collection of 13 short stories by Vladimir Nabokov previously published in… read more
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2. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
By: Joan Didion
4.19
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more
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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
3. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By: Sebastian Smee
3.93
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artis… read more
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4. Lee Krasner: A Biography
By: Gail Levin
3.80
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
Perhaps best known as the long-suffering wife of Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now, finally, bein… read more
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5. Letters to Milena
By: Franz Kafka , Aarno Peromies , Philip Boehm , Milena Jesenská
3.89
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as … read more
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"I can't hold enough of you in my hands."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"Il sogno è l'ultima notizia che possiedo di te."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
"I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it."-Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
6. Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art?
By: Kyung An , Jessica Cerasi
4.08
Format: None pages,
What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? What is it for? And why is it so expensive? F… read more
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7. Color: A Natural History of the Palette
By: Victoria Finlay
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Discover the tantalizing true stories behind your favorite colors. For example: Cleopatra used saff… read more
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8. The Lathe of Heaven
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more
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9. Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
By: Lauren Elkin
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, … read more
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10. On Photography
By: Susan Sontag
3.89
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images which are continually … read more
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"The painter constructs, the photographer discloses."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Cameras miniaturize experience, transform history into spectacle."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
"Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia."-Susan Sontag, On Photography
11. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
12. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
13. This Other Eden
By: Paul Harding
3.78
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more
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14. Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
By: Cory Doctorow
3.90
Format: 213 pages, Hardcover
A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the wor… read more
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"I miss the days when forensic accountancy and security engineering were distinct fields."-Cory Doctorow, Red Team Blues (Martin Hench #1)
15. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
16. 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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"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
17. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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18. They: A Sequence of Unease
By: Kay Dick
3.38
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
They is a dream, a surreal nightmare which sends a shock right to the heart of our cultural complac… read more
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"It was no good listening for footsteps; they wore no shoes."-Kay Dick, They: A Sequence of Unease
19. Affinities: On Art and Fascination
By: Brian Dillon
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A meditation on the power and pleasures of the image, from paintings to photographs to migraine aur… read more
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20. The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.08
Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition
'Endlessly intriguing . . . I was enchanted' - DAILY TELEGRAPH'Illuminating in every sense of the w… read more
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21. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
By: Elizabeth Comen
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more
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"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today
22. A Year in the Art World
By: Matthew Israel
3.71
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An insider’s detailed chronicle of the inner workings of the contemporary art world. The world of c… read more
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23. 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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24. 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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25. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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26. Modern Instances: The Craft of Photography
By: Stephen Shore
4.36
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
‘Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable… read more
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27. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher… read more
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28. Oh, to Be a Painter! (ekphrasis)
By: Virginia Woolf
4.04
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The twentieth volume in the renowned ekphrasis series, this collection of Virginia Woolf’s writings… read more
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29. Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
By: Joanna Moorhead
4.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work thr… read more
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30. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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31. Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
By: Charles Darwent
3.20
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to Americ… read more
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