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“The International Criminal Court in a Nutshell” is a timely and concise introduction to the International Criminal Court.

The National Art History Institute in Paris has published Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture comme action collective [Architecture as collective action] by Zeuler R. Lima, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The book proposes to understand the dialogue Lina Bo Bardi’s visionary and critical […]

Unexpected Routes chronicles the refugee journeys of six writers whose lives were upended by fascism in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during World War II.

Matisse and the Sea examines the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included painting in coastal locations on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake. Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might have seemed like an average midwestern town, the activism that exploded there after Brown’s killing laid bare how longstanding municipal planning policies had […]

When the Nigerian Civil War crept to his quiet college town, Matthew Mamah’s global journey began. His father, an Anglican priest who survived smallpox, had always urged him to “aim high and shoot high.” Matthew knew that his quest for excellence could take him to the horizon’s edge, but he never imagined himself in Budapest, […]

Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private […]

A Planetary Avant-Garde explores how experimental poetics and literature networks have aesthetically and politically responded to the legacy of Iberian colonialism across the world. The book examines avant-garde responses to Spanish and Portuguese imperialism across Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia between 1909 and 1929. Ignacio Infante critically traces the hegemony and resistance […]

This book analyzes how contemporary visual art can visualize environmental crisis. It draws on Karen Barad’s method of “agential realism,” which understands disparate factors as working together and “entangled.” Through an analysis of digital eco art, the book shows how the entwining of new materialist and decolonized approaches accounts for the nonhuman factors shaping ecological […]

Next Big Idea Club Must Read BooksLibrary Journal Editor’s Pick “This vital and accessible study is a must-read for anyone concerned with workplace equality.”—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) A leading sociologist reveals why racial inequality persists in the workplace despite today’s multi-billion-dollar diversity industry—and provides actionable solutions for creating a truly equitable, multiracial future. Labor and […]