Enghelab Street, A Revolution through Books: Iran 1979 – 1983

By Carol Nisar

DEC 19-JAN 20 | Art Books

Amassed by the artist Hannah Darabi, this oversized photobook casts a broadly curated lens on the sociopolitical turmoil induced by Iran’s Islamic revolution through a look at the Tehran’s underground publishing scene. Including personal recollections, first-hand accounts from publishers and photographers, and invaluable photographic documentation of the books and the city, Darabi and researcher Chowra Makaremi reconstruct this important moment in Iran’s history.

“POETRY AS FORCES” AFTER Cecilia Vicuña

By Andrea Abi-Karam

APR 2019 | Critics Page

The "about to happen" / "poetry as forces" when Cecilia Vicuña says that the lies (the words, the language) of the Chilean dictatorship murdered & tortured thousands of people I remember the power of the word & i remember the power of poetry—"made of forces"—that holds something in the action of language

Art Books Dispatches from the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

SEPT 2019 | Art Books

My conversation with Devers underscored the importance of collecting as a means of rectifying history. “It seems like a nostalgic pursuit, but the more energy in the market around certain books, the more likely it gets onto syllabus and back into print.”

Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By Deena ElGenaidi

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Books

Moshfegh’s novel follows a conventionally beautiful 26-year-old woman—tall, thin, blonde—who has no real need to work, living on the Upper East Side in the year 2000, surviving off her dead parents’ inheritance. She has all the privilege and benefits afforded to a young, wealthy, white woman in New York, but all she wants to do is sleep.