Zora Neale Hurston’s hand-drawn Christmas card (1926). From Fannie Hurst’s papers at the Harry Ransom center in Austin, TX. Via the Ransom Center’s Instagram account.
Tag: Art
Incarnation, Birth, and Resurrection — Wolfgang Grässe
Incarnation, Birth, and Resurrection , 1973 by Wolfgang Grässe (1930-2008)
Alenushka — Viktor Vasnetsov
Alenushka, 1881 by Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)
Black Spruce — Jamie Wyeth
Black Spruce, 1994 by Jamie Wyeth (b. 1946)
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine — Artemisia Gentileschi
Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine by Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653)
Late Visitors — Paul Fenniak
Late Visitors, 2017 by Paul Fenniak (b. 1965)
Christmas Card — Aubrey Beardsley
A Christmas card (1895) designed by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898)
“A Tale of Christmas” — Moebius
“A Tale of Christmas” by Moebius. Published in Heavy Metal, December 1979. Via the Bristol Board.
Untitled (Club Couple) — Kerry James Marshall
Untitled (Club Couple), 2014 by Kerry James Marshall (b. 1955)
Charles Darwin at the age of 75 — Adrian Ghenie
Charles Darwin at the age of 75, 2014 by Adrian Ghenie (b. 1977)
A Distinct Affection of a More Animal Kind — Sanam Khatibi
A Distinct Affection of a More Animal Kind, 2016 by Sanam Khatibi (b. 1979)
The Knives — Michaël Borremans
The Knives by Michaël Borremans (b. 1963)
Reviews, riffs, anti-reviews, and interviews of 2017 (and seventeen roosters)
I read fewer books in 2017 than I have in years, and wrote a lot less on this blog than in the past. There are (uninteresting) reasons. There were lots of books and films that I wish I’d written about—maybe I’ll squeeze them into a post in the next week—but for now, mostly as a means of archiving and organizing (and a reminder to update the reviews page), these are the longer things I wrote on this blog this year (and, uh, some roosters):
A review of Ishmael Reed’s Christmas satire, The Terrible Twos
Not a review of Laurent Binet’s novel The Seventh Function of Language
Eddie Campbell’s canon of great graphic novels, 1977-2001
On Philip K. Dick’s novel A Maze of Death
A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
A riff on rereading Carson McCullers’ novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Yuri Herrera’s Kingdom Cons condenses myth into vibrant narco noir
Not a review of Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian
On Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a story about storytelling
A quick note on Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Heart of a Dog
Let me recommend Antonio di Benedetto’s overlooked novel Zama
Helen DeWitt’s novel Lightning Rods just wasn’t for me
A review of Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down, Ishmael Reed’s syncretic Neo-HooDoo revenge Western
A review of Robert Coover’s excellent new novel Huck Out West
Canoe — Aron Wiesenfeld
Canoe by Aron Wiesenfeld (b. 1972)
Untitled — Dado
Untitled, 1969 by Dado (Miodrag Đurić, 1933-2010)
The Waiting Room — George Tooker
The Waiting Room, 1959 by George Tooker (1920-2011)
Crux Mystica — Agostino Arrivabene
Crux Mystica, 2017 by Agostino Arrivabene (b. 1967)
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