Jennifer Kabat

From a posthumously published book by Elias Canetti to Lauren Oyler’s latest collection of essays, the frieze team recommend the new books they’re most excited about

Édouard Louis’s A Woman’s Battles and Transformations and Lynne Tillman’s Mothercare both look at the struggles of their mothers through the socioeconomics lens of caregiving

The Argentine author’s new short story collection, written in the wake of economic collapse, depict women finding pleasure in unexpected circumstances  

What a garden’s lowliest plants can teach us about resistance to capitalism and patriarchy

The artist’s far-seeing experiments with digital avatars and viral antibodies help us better understand ourselves

In Buffalo, the artist Marlene McCarty has planted a toxic garden that draws on the area’s intertwined histories of capitalism, expropriation and utopian dreaming

Johnston showed how writing was performance and politics at once

‘Inside the cemetery, hundreds of names descend in chronological order, but time’s forward motion clearly does not signify progress here’

The US writer and filmmaker has created new paths for arts writing and critical thinking, not from wielding a cudgel but by exposing our bruises

Featuring Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, ‘Womanhouse’ marks the 30th anniversary of the museum dedicated to women artists

How Ellen Lesperance transmits messages about history, feminism and labour through the art of knitting

On Stellar Rays, New York, USA

How Colleen Asper's paintings challenge traditional representations of the body

Ahead of her upcoming solo show at the Whitney Museum in New York, Sophia Al-Maria talks shopping malls, war, climate change and Gulf futurism

Looking forward to Nancy Holt, David Horvitz and Eileen Myles

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