November 27, 2019 Book Beat Staff Recommendations 2019 Some of our favorite books of 2019! Favorite Art Books; In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection Review in Vogue Notes and Methods by Hilma Af Klint Review in The Brooklyn Rail Ideas (cont.) by Scott Reeder Review in The New York Times Chicago Imagists! by The Hayward Gallery Review in Trebuchet Magazine Writings by Tony Conrad Review in The New York Times Medieval Monsters by Lindquist and Mittman Review in The New York Review of Books Art-Rite by Walter Robinson Review in 032c Into the Mylar Chamber by Ira Cohen Review in The October Gallery Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design by The Vitra Design Museum Review in The Guardian Celebration by WIlliam Klein Review in The New York Journal of Books Cary; How To Make A Plant Love You by Summer Rayne Oaks Interview in Eco-Age Bowie’s Bookshelf by John O’Connell Review in Open Culture Evening in Paradise by Lucia Berlin NEW IN PAPERBACK!Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books Genius and Ink by Virginia Woolf Review in The Times Literary Supplement No One Is Too Small To Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg Review in The Guardian The Art of Curiosity by Exploratorium Details at Exploratorium Rusty Brown by Chris Ware Review in The AV Club Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon by Maxine Gordon Review in The New York Times Gwyn; Black Wings Beating by Alex London Review in Kirkus Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez Review in The Guardian The Grace Year by Kim Liggett Review in Tin Kitchen Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Review in Kirkus The Farm by Joanne Ramos Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Review in Lambda Literary Anna; Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Review in The New Yorker Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr by Grant Hayter-Menzies Review in The Vancouver Sun “Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them.” – Lloyd Alexander The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer Review in The Washington Post Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life by Marta McDowell Review in The Wall Street Journal How To Be Invisible by Kate Bush Review in The Guardian Colleen; The Enchanted Hour by Meghan Cox Gurdon Review in Kirkus A Cloud A Day by Gavin Pretor-Pinney Review in The New York Times Votes For Women: A Portrait of Persistence edited by Kate Clarke Lemay Review in The Washington Post Brilliant Maps by Ian Wright Review in The Telegraph The Sad Little Fact by Jonah Winter Review in Kirkus The Penguin Classics Book by Henry Eliot Review in The Spectator Evan; Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson Review in The LSE Book Review Coventry by Rachel Cusk Review in The New York Review of Books Where, When, How Often and with Whom by Cecily Brown Review in Apollo Magazine Marilou Is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith Review in NPR The Unpassing by Chia-Chia Lin Review in The New York Times Early Work by Andrew Martin Review in The New Yorker McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh Review in Zyzzyva White Girls by Hilton Als Review in The New York Times Craig; Monstrer, She Wrote by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson Review in Cemetary Dance Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin Review in The New York Times Tiffany; The New Black Vanguard by Antwaun Sargent Review in The New York Times Complete Paintings of Gustav Klimt edited by Tobias G. Natter Review in The New York Times New Daughters of Africa by Margaret Busby Review in The Guardian Who Wet My Pants by Bob Shea Review in Kirkus Tracy; Laughing With Obama by M. Sweeney Reviews at GoodReads Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Review in Rolling Stone BiblioStyle by Nina Freudenberger Review in City Book Review My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite Review in The Los Angeles Review of Books Last Day by Domenica Ruta Review in The New York Times The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King Review in The Washington Post Tony; The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt Review in The Washington Post Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith Review in The New York Times A Warning by Anonymous Review in The Guardian The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King Review in The Washington Post Biasaed by Jennifer L. Eberhardt Review in The New York Times “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” –Stephen King New & Noteworthy books about Detroit; The Detoit Printing Co-op by Danielle Aubert Review in The Gradient The Dawn of Detroit by Tina Miles {New in Paperback!) Review in The New York Times The Queen Next Door by Linda Solomon Review in The Detroit News ‘Til Wrong Feels Right by Iggy Pop Review in Pitchfork Detroit (Maiden Energy) by Carolyn Striho Review in The Metro Times RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music by Jim Daniels and ML Liebler Review at WDET Facebook Pinterest Twitter General