She Who Held the Camera
The images in Polaroids represent a variety of famous names, some immediately recognizable, such as Patti Smith, a beautifully bejeweled Paloma Picasso, and Diana Vreeland.
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Sacks from the Grave
After submitting the final draft of the memoir to his publisher, Sacks learned that he had metastatic cancer, and that it was terminal. He then focused on a series of discursive essays reflecting upon the imminence of his death. These have now been posthumously published as Gratitude, in the manner of a spare, graceful coda to his beautifully rendered memoir.
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A Philosopher’s Double Life
Many of his contemporaries have remarked upon Foucault’s “double life,” and it is this sense of inherent contradiction that forms the theme of François Caillat’s Foucault Against Himself, a collection of interviews with four people who knew and worked with Foucault …
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