Brian Dillon Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Brian Dillon

Much better known, partly thanks to its appearance in Roland Barthes’s “Camera Lucida”, is Avedon’s closeup portrait of Casby (“born a slave”, as the caption says), which was first published in “Nothing Personal”, the book Avedon made with James Baldwin. https://t.co/KYm1N0t8TO

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Bless him, I think I might have sat next to old John of Gorze in the library a few times. (From Dennis Duncan’s “Index, a history of the”) https://t.co/dFuyPfjTnZ

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Water cures, lobotomies, and big pharma: my review of “Desperate Remedies”, Andrew Scull’s history of psychiatry and its failures. Also in this week’s @4_columns, Emily LaBarge on Carlo Crivelli at Ikon Gallery—and more. https://t.co/XgtlUxyyul

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The great @maryanncaws – preeminent scholar of Modernism & Surrealism, biographer of Dora Maar, Woolf & Proust, translator of Breton & Mallarmé (& much else) – has written the first US review of AFFINITIES. And she approves! @TheBrooklynRail @NYRB_Imprints https://t.co/yxL1I6OCX9

Brian Dillon

Much better known, partly thanks to its appearance in Roland Barthes’s “Camera Lucida”, is Avedon’s closeup portrait of Casby (“born a slave”, as the caption says), which was first published in “Nothing Personal”, the book Avedon made with James Baldwin. https://t.co/KYm1N0t8TO

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I'm in this week's @4_columns summer missive, reviewing Terry Eagleton's "Critical Revolutionaries". https://t.co/Z2Syx0KkHQ

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For @4_columns, I wrote about Hélène Cixous's "Well-Kept Ruins": a memoir/essay about the Lower Saxony town of Osnabrück—which her mother fled for Algeria before the Nazis took power—and the subsequent fate of the town's remaining Jewish citizens. https://t.co/LmeEtrkfOT

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For @4_columns, my review of “The Written World and the Unwritten World”: a new collection of nonfiction by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein. https://t.co/zkS4BEc8BI

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The US galley/proof of AFFINITIES is here. Thanks to @BarbaSusan for kind and meticulous editing and to @legroff for the beautiful supportive comment. The painting on the cover is from Allison Katz's series "Cabbage (and Phillip)". Published by @NYRB_Imprints on 25 April. https://t.co/YC1nQ8CPdI

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FASSBINDER THOUSANDS OF MIRRORS is published today by @FitzcarraldoEds – congratulations to @pawboy2. Looking forward to conversation with IP and Olivia Laing at Foyles on 4 May https://t.co/7AQDdkJRGe