Jana Prikryl’s third book of poems, Midwood, will be published this August. She is the executive editor of The New York Review of Books.
How a photographer’s images of Jews were liberated from the lachrymose history he imposed upon them.
Robert Gottlieb’s vigorous biography of Sarah Bernhardt shows the actress in all her workaholic, passionate and unsentimental force.
Miroslav Tichy’s haphazard, eccentric photographs are disciplined, even rigorous–and indifferent to the claims of their female subjects.
The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.