Books

What’s worth packing in your suitcase? The frieze team offers their picks for holiday reads

Released this month, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book explores her relationship with the Italian language as a writer and translator

The writer’s new collection of essays repositions Indiana as a prescient analyst of US art and politics

The artist and author’s new novella, ‘Tuesday or September or The End’, imagines an alternative collective future

Part memoir, part literary portrait, the author’s new book on Berlin goes beyond familiar narratives of the German capital

Nicole Rudick’s new biography weaves together her own writing with that of Saint Phalle, offering a more complex portrait of the artist

Ian Bourland speaks to the writer about the persistence of university narratives and what it means to write novels in 2022

A new book of Derek McCormack's collected writing captures his irreverent take on fashion, from Kathy Acker to Jean-Paul Gaultier and the late Thierry Mugler

In his first book, the author offers a scholarly account of the life and work of Minoru Yamasaki – the esteemed architect of the World Trade Center

The writer reflects on how secretly loving pool led him down a path of self-education

In a new translation of her innovative interviews, the writer exposes the layers behind being a critic in the 20th century

Collected in a new volume, Hubbs’s new photographs transform humiliation and degradation into pillars of personal power

The latest experimental thriller from the Booker Prize winner propagates its subjects’ paranoia within the reader’s mind

Esmé Hogeveen reviews the writer's new book Replace Me (2021), which tackles replaceability against a backdrop of employment precarity in the arts and academia  

Latifa Echakhch, Michael Krebber, Xie Nanxing, Tobias Pils and Shahzia Sikander share the books they frequently return to for inspiration

The author of ‘The Netanyahus’ speaks with Lincoln Michel about his latest work and how his definition of ‘truth’ changes with every novel

The UK-based writer's book This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century (2021) shines a light on the ways women artists have defined their lives on their own terms

Juliet Jacques reviews the writer and activist’s new book, which tackles head-on the insurgent culture war around trans liberation and condemns media misrepresentations 

Writers Juliet Jacques and Isabel Waidner recent books track the legal recognition of transgender people in the UK

Accompanying her show at Galerie Buchholz in New York, the artist’s new book leaves readers to navigate her labyrinthine conceptual practice