One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Publish[...]

"Bond's fabulosity is matched by a trenchant wit, and V's] over-the-top stories are smartly edged with politics, sexual or otherwise."--"The New York Times"Recently hailed as "the greatest cabaret artist of V's] generation" in "The New Yorker," Mx. Justin Vivian Bond makes a brilliant literary deb[...]

White Girls, Hilton Als's first book since The Women 16 years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deftly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The result is an extraordinary, complex portrait[...]

Conceived and articulated as a site-specific opera, River of Fundament takes its inspiration from Norman Mailer's novel Ancient Evenings, which chronicles the protagonist's soul's journey through death and reincarnation, according to Egyptian mythology. This multipart body of work continues the art[...]