Books

Hatty Nestor's new book Ethical Portraits examines portraiture’s central role in understanding the discriminatory nature of the US criminal justice system 

The author’s latest book, See/Saw: Looking at Photographs, condenses over 100 years of history into selected moments

'Crocodile Cradle', a collaborative project in the London gallery's window, collages together new and found texts by 51 artists, reflecting on how the pandemic has stratified society

The UK-based poet speaks with frieze editor Andrew Durbin about her debut collection of poems from Granta

The debut novel, sugar-dusted with zeitgeist signifiers, satirizes the 21st-century urban bourgeoisie – but who is the joke actually on?

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

A century ago, the novelists Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann depicted a world recovering from war and pandemic. What can we learn from translating their works today?

The author’s latest novel, ‘The Silence’, is full of questions with obvious answers

The prolific Beat poet, who died aged 86 on 25 October, left behind a powerful and ever-urgent call to action in her Revolutionary Letters

Taken over a decade and published in 2001, Singh’s book documents the life of her friend Mona Ahmed 

The author's new novel is a smart, sharply observed critique of literary tropes and the art world

‘Frog Pond Splash’, published 20 November by Siglio Press, presents four decades of the artist’s mail-art exchanges with poet William S. Wilson

The winner of the New Academy Prize remembers how Fanon's legendary book has changed her reading and writing life

With ‘Men and Apparitions’ – her first novel to be published in the UK since 1999 – Tillman deep-dives into photography and its lovers

At Museum Frieder Bruda’s Salon Berlin, the artist reflects on book burning during the Nazi regime

In three stories, the German filmmaker and writer bears witness to the tentativeness of history

A new publishing project misunderstands the anti-patriarchal motivations behind historical pen names

Revisiting the author’s prescient 'manifesto for a fair fight' - first published as an essay in 2014 - now out as a full-length book

The author of Glitch Feminism on correcting the cyberfeminist canon, the Black trauma at the root of memes and why online space is still ‘real’

The American poet – whose ‘Memory’ is now out from Siglio Press – on the poetics of synesthesia