
Hear Dmitry Samarov read the introduction to Georges Perec’s novel Life A User’s Manual.

Jazz Band, 1948 by Norman Lewis (1909-1979)

Witness, 1968 by Benny Andrews (1930-2006)

A Youth, 1934 by Hale Woodruff (1900-1980)

Advancing Impulses, 1997 by Mildred Thompson (1936-2003)

Nude (Spotlight), 2009 by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955)

Self-Portrait with Palm Fronds, 2022 by Julie Heffernan (b. 1956)

The Magician, 1955 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)

Mary Reading, c. 1916 by Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938)

Sally, 1979 by Beth Van Hoesen (1926-2010)

Cold, 1948 by Remedios Varo (1908-1963)

Illustration from Ah Pook Is Here, Malcolm McNeill’s 1970s collaboration with William S. Burroughs

Study for Degenerate Art, 2022 by Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977)

The Drinkers, c. 1950 by Jirayr Zorthian (1911-2004)

Soaking by Vincent Desiderio (b. 1955)

Suzie Q, 2011 by F. Scott Hess (b. 1955)