The New York Review of Books (June 27, 2024) – The latest issue features:
Reimagining the Ordinary
The French artist Jean Hélion approached painting with a philosophical precision, each style a hypothesis to be investigated and tested.
Jean Hélion: La Prose du monde – an exhibition at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, March 22–August 18, 2024
A Story of His Own
In James, Percival Everett’s smart, funny, brutal retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Everett takes readers deeper into the capricious yet certain violence of American slavery, giving the characters a life that seems to lift off the page.
James by Percival Everett
The Watercolorist
The short fiction of Ángel Bonomini possesses a lightness that sets him apart from contemporaries like Borges and Cortázar.
The Novices of Lerna by Ángel Bonomini, translated from the Spanish by Jordan Landsman