Regina Marler | The New York Review of Books

The Emergency Everywhere

In Madeleine Watts’s The Inland Sea and Maxim Loskutoff’s Ruthie Fear, young women navigate danger from men and from themselves, against a backdrop of relentless climate catastrophe.

The Inland Sea

by Madeleine Watts

Ruthie Fear

by Maxim Loskutoff

March 25, 2021 issue

Carson McCullers, Columbus, Georgia, 1941

Carson McCullers: A Connoisseur of Yearning

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

by Jenn Shapland

July 23, 2020 issue

Al & Georgia & Beck & Paul

Two recent books examine the lives of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe and their astonishingly productive marriage.

Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury

by Carolyn Burke

Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters

by Phyllis Rose

November 7, 2019 issue

Shock Artistry

Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel

an exhibition at the New Museum, New York City, September 26, 2018–January 20, 2019; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 9–September 1, 2019

August 15, 2019 issue

Abbott’s Absence

November 8, 2018 issue

‘Every Time I Look at It I Feel Ill’

René Magritte: The Fifth Season

an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, May 19–October 28, 2018

October 25, 2018 issue

Pictures of the Jazz Age

A glittering roster sat for portraits by Berenice Abbott, including Jean Cocteau, Djuna Barnes, and André Gide

Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography

by Julia Van Haaften

Paris Portraits: 1925–1930

by Berenice Abbott, edited by Ron Kurtz and Hank O’Neal

The Unknown Berenice Abbott

edited by Ron Kurtz and Hank O’Neal

May 10, 2018 issue

Letter

Donovan Reynolds

Abbott’s Absence

November 8, 2018 issue

Leonora Carrington with André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, and Max Ernst, New York City, 1942; photograph by Hermann Landshoff. At center is Morris Hirshfield’s painting Nude at the Window (1941).

In the Cauldron at Midnight

The life and work of the Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington

Farewell to the Muse: Love, War and the Women of Surrealism

by Whitney Chadwick

Down Below

by Leonora Carrington, with an introduction by Marina Warner

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

with an introduction by Kathryn Davis, translated from the French by Kathrine Talbot and from the Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan

March 8, 2018 issue