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Such is the opening to Jennifer Bartlett's mid-career retrospective--the rotunda installation is her most recent work, Sea Wall, 1985--and it sets the tone of expectation very well. The large, the environmental and the obscurely systematized are here conflated with the small, the decorative and the pleasurable...
The Color Purple is an epistolary novel: a child's letters to God, written by Celie, a poor black girl in early-20th century Georgia. Celie's story is one both of injustice, at the fists of black men, and of emotional regeneration, at the caressing hands of black women...
Finally, there is the problem of the missing Nazi years. It is a fixed belief in most circles that officially accepted Nazi art was so bad that it cannot be disinterred and looked at. The trouble is that Nazi art was, to put it mildly, both German and 20th century...
Charles Dickens died having finished only half of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that tantalizing incompleteness has prompted countless attempts to round off the novel's Gothic plot. The story echoes Dickens' familiar themes of unspoken sexual obsession, middle-class hypocrisy and the crushing burden of guilty secrets. It...
"This has taken over my whole life," Sullivan says. "It's become an obsession. Reading for pleasure has stopped--I look for bildung in everything I read."