NYT Mag books special!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/McDonald-t.html?ref=review by Jennifer McDonald
on Graeme Gibson's THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS: A Wildlife Miscellany
As he did four years ago in “The Bedside Book of Birds,” Gibson, the Canadian novelist (and longtime partner in birding and berry-picking to Margaret Atwood), has compiled poetry and myth, fairy tale and folklore, sacred texts and travelogues in an enchantingly illustrated volume that will awaken something primal in any human who dips into its pages. But this is far from a merely pretty survey of the animal kingdom. It is a book of raw spirit, a polemic against cold industrialization buttressed by Darwin, Forster, Murakami and Neruda, Audubon, Rubens and Leonardo, among many others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/Baszile-t.html?_r=1&ref=review by Jennifer Baszile
On Deborah Willis' POSING BEAUTY: African American Images From the 1890s to the Present
"If a single thread unifies the images in this amazing collection, it is the subjects’ agency in the conception and presentation of their own beauty, which is itself a radical departure from the more familiar objectification of African-Americans in the nation’s collective visual memory."
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