The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
A menagerie of (short) narrative forms; elegant and playful dispatches from a world that, refreshingly, seems to never have been visited by religion, brand names, or Freud. You'd call it science fiction, except there are no robots, either. [ME]
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Soak: Mumbai in an Estuary
Anuradha Mathur & Dilip da Cunha
Rupa & Co., 2009
A powerful reinterpretation of the relationship of Mumbai to the Mithi River: What if the city ceased to combat the seasonal monsoons with hard engineering, and instead reconceived itself as an estuary, in accord with ecology and geography? Handsomely designed and produced, Soak is the catalogue for a recent exhibition at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Mumbai. [NL]
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ReFusing Fashion: Rei Kawakubo
Dresner, Hilberry & Miro, editors
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 2008
The catalog that accompanied an exhibition of Rei Kawakubo's design for Comme des Garçons, with essays focused on her work as design process rather than (or alongside) fashion, by Harold Koda, Sylvia Lavin, Michael Stone-Richards and Judith Thurman. Designed by Danielle Aubert and Lana Cavar. Selected for AIGA's "50 Books." [LW]
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