Category: Review
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A Carol at Sixty Nine
A Carol at Sixty NinePeter and Donna Thomas2026 14 folded panels2.5 × 2.5 in. closedSingle-sheet, cut and folded structure with hard covers and paper slipcaseLetterpress printing on handmade paperEdition of 69 copies Peter and Donna Thomas are known as collaborators, and both names are on the cover of A Carol at Sixty Nine. In this…
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John Cage’s 640 numbers between 1 and 4
John Cage’s 640 numbers between 1 and 4: An assisted self-portraitJosh HockensmithBlue Bluer Books2025 24 pages5.25 × 8.25 in. closedSaddle-stitched softcover with inserted photocopyDigital print-on-demand John Cage’s 640 numbers between 1 and 4 is exactly that: Josh Hockensmith’s interpretation of one of Cage’s computer-generated numerical sequences. Unlike Cage’s unadorned grids of numbers — there are…
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Tears Are Everywhere
Tears Are EverywhereKira Lynn Cain andEllen Robinette2026Buckman Publishing 36 pages8.25 × 10.25 in. closedPerfect-bound hardcoverPrint-on-demand ink jet From its front cover, where the hand-lettered title merges playfully with line illustrations that give way to an explosion of watercolor, Tears Are Everywhere might be mistaken for a children’s book. The format inside is similar, too. The…
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RAGE PEN
RAGE PENDavid Blackmore and Michael HamptonFolium2025 108 pages8.25 × 5.83 in. closedPerfect-bound softcover with perforated fore-edgesXerox printing with embossed coverEdition of 100 In 2017 artist David Blackmore turned his studio into a rage pen (rage room for American readers) and invited anonymous collaborators to vent their frustration by destroying a symbolic object. Blackmore documented the…
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One More Day
One More Day: A Collection of CollectionsSonny Meno-Gutierrez2026 72 pages8.5 × 8.5 in. closedPerfect bindingDigital printing One More Day is an omnibus edition of photo series by Sonny Meno-Gutierrez. Some of the projects already exist as separate photobooks, but they function differently within One More Day. The book is, as the subtitle puts it, “a…
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Typesetting on a Winter’s Afternoon
Typesetting on a Winter’s AfternoonMichael KoppaText by Raymond Stanley Nelson, Jr.The Heavy Duty Press2018 92 pages4.5 × 6.5 × 0.5 in. closedSewn signatures attached without adhesive to stiffened paper covers; contained in a folded paper enclosure with an explanatory insertLetterpress printingEdition of 26 copies Typesetting on a Winter’s Afternoon was the first book Michael Koppa…
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In the Stitch
In the StitchChika Ito2026 12 pages4.13 × 5.83 in. closedSewn-pamphlet with unbound card, needle, and thread inserted; enclosed in a belly bandInkjet printingEdition of 88 In the Stitch is a slim yet surprising pamphlet by Chika Ito. The artist, who works as a paper conservation lab technician and makes her own inks, can wring maximum…
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“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this Book
“Tear Gas Flash Bangs Fires” Consume Us and Will Consume this BookPaul Valadez2026 286 pages9.5 × 13.75 in. closedUnbound altered bookInk lettering on cover with graphite and watercolor insideUnique (1 copy) Most of the books I review have been donated to Artists’ Book Reviews — an exchange of artistic and critical labor. If anything, it…
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Serpents
SerpentsPhilip Zimmermann2025Spaceheater Editions 2 volumes, 40 pages and 60 pages10.325 × 8.5 × 0.75 in. together in slipcasePamphlet and double-pamphlet stitched softcovers with wrappersHP indigo printing inside with foil-stamped covers and blind-embossed slipcaseEdition of 60 copies Philip Zimmermann calls Serpents a “visual and poetic rant” about 2025, the Year of the Snake. Having survived 2025,…
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Warten
WartenConstanze Kreiser2021 20 pages8.25 × 5.75 in. closedPamphlet stitchDigital printing with graphite and cut-out embellishmentsVaried edition of 20 copies Warten is a book about waiting for a book about waiting. Constanze Kreiser created Warten (“waiting” in German) while waiting for a copy of Maurice Blanchot’s Awaiting Oblivion to arrive at a local bookstore. Created in…
