Books

Three new publications by artists catalogue the minutiae of contemporary existence

The artist and writer discusses the books that have influenced her

The myth of the ‘Great American Novel’

Two recent publications examine conflict and collaboration in public art projects

The act of writing and the ‘shadowy constitution of authorship’

Italian artist Linda Fregni Nagler discusses the books that have influenced her

Walking with Teju Cole

Reading as information control: the poet Tan Lin talks to Sam Thorne

Did Philip K. Dick predict the future of surveillance?

With the sad news of Stanley Brouwn's passing, aged 81, we revisit our feature on the elusive artist

A performative tour of libraries in Nairobi

For his new book American Smoke, Iain Sinclair travels in search of the writers who inspired him as a young man

On Eric Hobsbawm's Fractured Times

Jennifer Doyle discusses her new book, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

A new book by Bruce Altshuler explores the history of postwar exhibitions

The radical journal and independent publisher has long been an open-ended enterprise, the product of innumerable people and their own tangled itineraries

An interview with Michèle Bernstein, novelist and founding member of the Situationist International

Sifting fact from fiction

National identity and ‘global fiction’

Literature versus art history