Books: Retelling the History of Hysteria

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October 3, 2022 • View in browser

Photo Book Retells the History of Hysteria

Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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Hanya Yanagihara + Ivo van Hove = US stage premiere of A Little Life

No recent story has captivated millions of readers like Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, a National Book Award and Man Booker Prize finalist. In its US stage premiere at BAM, director Ivo van Hove adapts this bestselling novel about the intense friendships between four men over three decades in NYC. Learn more.

Photo by Jan Versweyveld

These Photographs Were Made in Protest

The camera became the center of Chauncey Hare’s life, and a tool for awakening his political consciousness. | Lauren Moya Ford

Some Sisterhood for Any Woman Attempting to Go It Alone

Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows. | Sarah Rose Sharp

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POETRY & MORE

Renee Gladman’s Poems Explore How Words Can Be “Read” as Images

Gladman’s poems suggest how ecological knowledge can affect how we can imagine cities. | Marcella Durand

Queer Coming-of-Age Graphic Novel Under the Shadow of Church

Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies. | Coco Picard

“Inside the Seed, There Is a Kingdom”

Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a “real ask” of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope. | Julia Shipley