Books

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

Oulipo and the re-release of Raymond Queneau’s 1947 Exercises in Style

Artist Gary Panter draws and discusses the books that have influenced him

How do you define jargon?

Richard Meyer’s new publication: What Was Contemporary Art?

'Presentism’ versus ‘future shock’

How writers and filmmakers have responded to that most melancholy of colours

Late-capitalist technologies propelling culture toward terminal inanity and political economy toward plutocratic rapacity is the rightful province of three new novels

Three new publications about globalization and contemporary curating

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

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