Drawing Us In

By Hilton Als

With Contributions by Dorothy Allison, John Berger, Mark Doty, Mary Gordon, bell hooks, Alfred Kazin, August Wilson, and othersFor the contributors to Drawing Us In, visual art makes us see what we...

The Early Stories of Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literatureRecently rediscovered in the archives of...

Lorna Simpson

By Okwui Enwezor

The Warhol look

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Robert Gober The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

By Hilton Als

"Published in conjunction with the first large-scale survey exhibition of Robert Gober's art in the United States and prepared in close collaboration with him, Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Meta...

Our town

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Our Town is published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York and the centennial of the consolidation of the city's five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the...

Interrogating Identity

By Kellie Jones

Without Sanctuary

By Hilton Als, Jon Lewis, Leon F. Litwack

The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the N...

Ways of seeing

By Tracy K. Smith, Hilton Als, Brenda Shaughnessy, Ben Marcus, Clare Sestanovich, George Saunders, Nick Mauss, Charlie Porter, Craig Morgan Teichner, Claire Gilman, Jennifer Krasinski

Kara Walker

By Kara Elizabeth Walker

"The works reproduced in this book were exhibited in their entirety in an exhibition titled 'Dust Jackets for the Niggerati - and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings submitted ruefully by Dr. Kara E...