Pao Houa Her’s Family IllusionsDavid TerrienArtReview Asia02 May 2024‘My grandfather turned into a tiger…’ collects the artist’s landscapes and portraits that occupy an in-between space
J.G. Ballard: Fact, Then FictionDavid TerrienArtReview17 November 2023A new collection of short-form nonfiction by the British writer brings to light texts that have until now disappeared from view
Insomnia, the ‘Most Profound Experience One Can Have’David TerrienArtReview21 August 2023Marie Darrieussecq’s new memoir, ‘Sleepless’ unearths the history and literature of insomnia’s sufferers
Stephanie LaCava’s ‘I Fear My Pain Interests You’ – ReviewDavid TerrienArtReview11 January 2023A high-concept, self-consciously mannered plot that trades in the poetry of therapeutic language
Life Amidst The Buildings: Justin Beal’s ‘Sandfuture’, ReviewedDavid TerrienArtReview14 December 2021The author weaves his personal experiences of New York with the story of World Trade Center architect Minoru Yamasaki in a multifaceted memoir
James Baldwin and America’s Third Moral ReckoningDavid TerrienArtReview28 May 2021Eddie S. Glaude Jr’s ‘Begin Again’ – overlayering periods in American history in order to highlight the cyclical nature of its racial conflicts – is a powerful, genre-defying work
Keller Easterling: a Worldview that Seeks Complications Rather than SolutionsDavid TerrienArtReview05 May 2021The longing for ideological coherence, the architect writes in ‘Medium Design’, is a tired and damaging cultural addiction we must break