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Pictorial works

Myth Makers

Oh Man

by Lise Sarfati,

New Books

We are ushered into a feminine world on page 1 of David Plante’s DIFFICULT WOMEN (New York Review Books, $16.95), when the author meets Jean Rhys in a South Kensington…

Tart

by Ben Schonzeit,

Sitting

by Claire Tabouret,

[Untitled]

by Jack Samels,

Film set (‘Free State of Jones’), battle of Corinth, Bush, Louisiana, 2015

by Li An-My,

Sphinx, Umm al-Quwain

by Philip Cheung,

Fear of Waves

by Katherine Bradford,

At Last

by Olivier Kugler,

Liberation Struggle

by Thomas Chatterton Williams,

Discussed in this essay: Chester B. Himes: A Biography, by Lawrence P. Jackson. W. W. Norton. 640 pages. $35. Early in Chester Himes’s first and best-known novel, If He Hollers…