Stark persuasively draws unlikely connections between skyscrapers and sexism, grid cities and loneliness, the internet and sustainability. Lois Farfel Stark’s "The Telling Image" is a wondrous and sweeping book that accomplishes a... Read More

Natalie Hopkinson makes an impassioned case for artists to have a more central role in rethinking societal problems in "A Mouth Is Always Muzzled". The book brilliantly recounts the history of the sugar and slave trades, as well as the... Read More

This rare theological gift tugs at the curtain fixed between Islam and Christianity. Navid Kermani’s "Wonder Beyond Belief" is a work of artistic inquiry that is rife with spiritually edifying morsels, made all the more piquant by the... Read More

What is American history other than a record of stuff that happened somehow related to the people and places of this country. Everything in the past is history, and no matter how insignificant, it factors into the character and identity... Read More

Facing a blank canvas, most artists strive to paint a pretty picture under the guidelines (however loose) of Impressionism, Expressionism, or some other style or technique, while a rarer few seek to use their paintings to address... Read More

Tyree’s oil paintings of Polynesian models have become iconic types; Cook’s collection is a fitting tribute. Ralph Burke Tyree was the kind of artist whose work will be familiar to many who don’t know him by name, as his paintings... Read More

Hall’s volume draws meaning and continuity from the vast and diverse body of P. K. Irwin’s visual art. Within a series dedicated to the work of the lauded Canadian poet P. K. Page, Michèle Rackham Hall’s The Art of P.K. Irwin... Read More

Take wisdom where you can find it, and keep on looking—especially in unlikely places. The first three or four sentences of this illustrated compendium of more than eighty of wisdom’s greatest hits points directly at a religious... Read More