Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Art Essay | Alexandra Kingston-Reese
Thematic Guide to Approaching the Essays
A Leonora Carrington A to Z | Chloe Aridjis
You Need to Look Away: Visions of Contemporary Malaysia | Tash Aw
How Paint and Perception Collide in the Work of Late Surrealist Dorothea Tanning | Claire-Louise Bennett
There’s Less to Portraits Than Meets the Eye, and More | Teju Cole
Now We Can See | Geoff Dyer
Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping? | Sheila Heti
A Walk around the Neighborhood | Chris Kraus
The Space between the Pictures | Jhumpa Lahiri
Damage Control | Ben Lerner
When Orhan Pamuk Met Anselm Kiefer | Orhan Pamuk
We Must Not Be Isolated | Ali Smith
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Imaginary Portraits | Zadie Smith
Hey, Necromancer! | Heidi Sopinka
The Burning House | Hanya Yanagihara
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