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… hundred thousand copies of their books. But Mark Strand embodies a different sort of “celebrity.” After all, how many … but rarely any poems. His Selected Poems of 1980 comprises Sleeping with One Eye Open (1964), Reasons for … stages of a poetic career, we might apply it here. Donoghue points to Darker as the transitional book; Kirby, to The …

… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …

… in 1968, Robert C.W. Ettinger shared his vision of a coming world in which humanity would be freed by beneficent … them or removing them in the mind of the individual. . . . Competitive drives, in the inter-personal sense, may or may … tomorrow is almost self-parodic; yet in essence it reveals a mindset that is not uncommon. Anyone who would devise …

… the tangled skein of accusations and confessions in that community, a task so brilliantly essayed, for example, by … biography, psychology, sociology, and history—the “four points of one scholar’s compass,” as he puts it—and in each … simply with hysteria; for by studying witchcraft as one studies infant mortality rates or patterns of land distribution …

… picture of Gordon, the infamous formerly enslaved Union  soldier with the scourged back trashed with vicious scars    in … galvanizing power of the mutilated Black body. Does horror  compel us more than beauty? A picture of Gordon’s back … of red that seeped from the edge of the brush.”   Her work also hangs in the Tate with a piece titled Esirn Coaler   on …