The Blathering Superego at the End of History
Emmett Rensin offers a psychoanalysis of managerial liberalism....
Above and Below the Fruited Plain: On Edward McPherson’s “The History of the Future”
A trip through the contemporary American landscape featuring portraits of eight different cities by a creative writing professor....
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SHINIQUE SMITH
Shinique Smith takes physical stock of fibreculture and the possibilities of line. Working widely across painting, drawing, collage, video and installation, Smith creates ecosystems of cooperative corporality. Her works evoke embodied artifacts with consciences of genteel street smarts. Graffiti, secondhand finds and neo-tribalism interact with Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Japanese calligraphy to create playful alterations between supertext and subtext, evoking the textile weaves of Smith’s oft-used materials themselves. In an exhaustive effort to process and restore culture, Smith creates menageries that glom high and lowbrow expressions and bury them at the human center.
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LARB Radio Hour: Deborah Nelson on "Tough Enough"; Plus Praise for "Motherest"
Author Deborah Nelson discusses "Tough Enough," about six iconic 20th-century women, and Amelia Gray recommends Kristen Iskandrian's novel "Motherest."......
