In July of 2017, photographer Matthew Connors (born 1976) and novelist and critic Lucy Ives (born 1980) embarked on a strange project: to remove and catalog all the contents of Connors's car, a 1992 Volvo 240 station wagon.

Although the New York–based duo began the endeavor without knowing where it would lead, their investigation—of parts, tools, ephemera, litter, personal items, unidentifiable disjecta, among other objects—lasted more than two years and resulted in a series of photographs by Connors and an essay by Ives on narrative forms and temporalities inherent to contemporary media.

This collaborative publication, designed by Elana Schlenker, poses questions about . . . .go to book page >>

Since 2013, poet, novelist, essayist and artist Renee Gladman (born 1971)—author of the acclaimed Ravickians novels—has been doing a kind of asemic writing that is also at once drawing and architecture (some of this work was published as Prose Architectures in 2017). Printed in white ink on black, with a beautiful embroidered cover, One Long Black Sentence brings together these drawings with a text by New York–based theorist and poet Fred Moten (born 1962) to form a sumptuous artist’s book in which drawing becomes an architecture for thought, for what writing looks like from the inside out.

Fred Moten’s Anindex” pushes . . . .go to book page >>