My parents divorced in 1976, during my first weeks of kindergarten. My memories of that time are fuzzy, but I do remember a t-shirt my mom wore as an expression of her new identity after her life with my dad. It was a yellow cotton shirt with a red stencil of an apple with one […]
“I buy six caterpillars so your grandchildren can watch them turn into butterflies. The company guarantees at least three of them will make it to their final stage of life. They all die. I write and complain. The email in which they offer to send me new caterpillars opens with the line, ‘Living things can […]
In 2013, Alec Soth’s imprint, Little Brown Mushroom, released Iris Garden, a beautifully designed book featuring photographs by William Gedney accompanied by some writing by John Cage. The book was shortlisted for the Aperture Foundation’s Photobook of the Year Award and helped reintroduce Gedney’s work to a growing audience of photographers and book lovers. Just […]
“Revolutions are about people. It is people – thinking, believing, reading, listening, chanting, raising their fists, walking the streets, placing their bodies in the line of fire – that make a revolution.” 一 Naghmeh Sohrabi In my experience, there is very little understanding in the West about the rise of the theocratic state in Iran. […]
Deanna Templeton’s new book, What She Said, is a stark and challenging self-reflection, part memoir and pair social documentary, addressing the challenges young women face during adolescence. The book is composed of two basic elements: fragments and scans of diaries Templeton kept during her own teenage years, and pictures made of young women she met […]
Road Through Midnight is meant to be a memorial that will prompt readers to understand more about these histories, in a deep and reflective way, as we are still far from answering the call…. ー Jessica Ingram Road Through Midnight, by Jessica Ingram, is an important and challenging book. It is dense with information, innovative […]