For every learner who has wasted dictionary time looking up the individual parts of a Spanish saying only to have the whole add up to nonsense, "The Big Red Book of Spanish Idioms "provides innovative and easy access to scores of turns-of-phrase and their idiomatic English equivalents. With more th[...]

In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self. Two allegorical installa[...]