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Something for the Weekend

November 18, 2011

Terror! – Amis on Don DeLillo and his new book The Angel Esmeralda: Nine Stories in The New Yorker: DeLillo is the laureate of terror, of modern or postmodern terror, and the way it hovers and shimmers in our subliminal minds. As Eric Hobsbawm has said, terrorism is a new kind of urban pollution, and the pollutant [...]

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Don McCullin

August 18, 2011

Photojournalist Don McCullin is internationally renowned for his images of conflict. But a new exhibition of his photographs at Tate Britain focuses on three other aspects of his work: his first foreign assignment in divided Berlin in 1961; documentary work on homelessness in East London in the late 60s, and landscape works, both urban, and rural [...]

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Diana Athill | Michael Salu and Rankin

August 17, 2011

Designed by the brilliant Michael Salu, the cover for Diana Athill’s forthcoming collection of letters, Instead of a Book, features a stunning portrait of the author by acclaimed British photographer Rankin (co-founder of Dazed & Confused in case you were wondering). To coincide with the release of the new book in October, Granta are also reissuing paperback [...]

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Richard Price Paperbacks | Henry Sene Yee

July 18, 2011

Columbine and A Wall in Palestine: cover designs by Henry Sene Yee Henry Sene Yee is a designer and art director at Picador USA. The very of his best work (and all of it is good) — his cover designs for Columbine by Dave Cullen and A Wall in Palestine by René Backmann to pick two recent [...]

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Patti Smith 1969-1976, Photographs by Judy Linn

April 6, 2011

“I was eager to be Judy’s model and to have the opportunity to work with a true artist. I felt protected in the atmosphere we created together. We had an inner narrative, producing our own unspoken film, with or without a camera.” — Patti Smith Here’s a short promotional trailer for Patti Smith 1969-1976, Photographs by [...]

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