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Sue Williamson and Lebohang Kganye
Tell Me What You Remember
Two acclaimed South African artists offer a cross-generational dialogue on history, memory, and the power of self-narration Three decades after the dismantling of apartheid began, South Africa’s so-called “born free...
Cecily Brown
Death and the Maid
An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work This survey of the acclaimed British...
Karl Lagerfeld
A Line of Beauty
A compelling look at the aesthetic and historical significance of Lagerfeld’s work—from his elegantly tailored pieces for Chanel to the witty, playful ensembles that came to define the Lagerfeld brand This...
Van Gogh's Cypresses
The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees...
Lawrence Abu Hamdan: Air Pressure (A Diary of the Sky)
The Future Fields Commission in Time-Based Media
A close investigation of aerial war and atmospheric violence through artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s newly commissioned audio and video installation This publication documents the creation of a new work by artist...
533 Days
The noted Dutch poet and novelist Cees Nooteboom reflects on the life of the mind through a reexamination of books, music, art, travel, and gardening“Nooteboom’s real subject is the one that’s defined his career...
Voyage to the Sonorous Land, or The Art of Asking and The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other
Two plays from the 2019 Nobel laureate for literature explore the life-affirming qualities of language In these two plays, here translated into English for the first time, the renowned Austrian writer...
Thomas Bernhard
The Making of an Austrian
Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), a literary figure of international acclaim and arguably Austria’s greatest post–World War II writer, became the first of his generation to expose unrelentingly his country’s pathological denial of...
Security and Conservation
The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade
An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns “Offers a thorough overview of an aspect of...
MI9
A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two
A thrilling history of MI9—the WWII organization that engineered the escape of Allied forces from behind enemy lines“A fitting tribute to the hundreds of men and women who risked their lives in assisting...