Books

Journals, poems, biography and ‘direct implication’– the year in books

On the occasion of a major retrospective at M HKA in Antwerp, Jimmie Durham talks to Kirsty Bell about enthusiasm, itinerancy, cities, poetry and Cherokee mythology

Looking back at John Berger’s G. and Ways of Seeing, published 40 years ago

The life and work of the late, great experimental writer, Christine Brooke-Rose

Brian Dillon visits art historian and novelist Marina Warner to talk about the art, books and objects that have shaped her thinking

A new book illuminates Louise Bourgeois' relationship to psychoanalysis

Accompanying his essay in frieze d/e, issue 6, Mark Prince selects his top 10 texts (and film) about painting.

Three new publications on socially engaged art by Claire Bishop, Creative Time and Pablo Helguera

Bertolt Brecht and the media today

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

Non-linear reading

The hybrid genre of the film novelization

The fall and rise of independent bookshops and publishing

A new translation of Julia Kristeva’s book on the art of beheading

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them

The fourth novel from New York-based writer Ben Marcus is a powerful allegory about language

Experimental magazines, absurdist writing and new fiction, the publishing highlights of 2011

An excerpt from the forthcoming treatise on photography by Jean-Philippe Obu-Stevenson: Snappy Snaps: Irrigating the Re-Un-De-Framed Conceptual Contextual Medium Mediation of the Imaged Photographic Picture (Editions Obu-Stevenson, Schipol Airport, 2012)

A new book on the writing of Diane Arbus prompts a deeper understanding of her photographs

From the failures of Roland Barthes to the joys of sustained looking, four new publications on photography