"The Pulitzer–Prize winning and Guggenheim-honored Hilton Als curates the best essays from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites, bringing “the fierce style of street reading and the formal tradition of critical inquiry, reads culture, race, and gender” (New York Times) to the task. “The essay, like love, like life, is indefinable, but you know an essay when you see it, and you know a great one when you feel it, because it is con ..."
My Pinup (Paperback) द्वारा HiltonAls Paperback, 48 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2022 द्वारा W W Norton, New York ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-3449-8, ISBN: 0-8112-3449-5
"With Contributions by Dorothy Allison, John Berger, Mark Doty, Mary Gordon, bell hooks, Alfred Kazin, August Wilson, and others For the contributors to "Drawing Us In, " visual art makes us see what we haven't seen before; it surprises, transforms, and comforts us. Dorothy Allison explains how a painting in a Baptist church taught her as a child that art connects people from disparate backgrounds. Alfred Kazin reflects on his wanderings ..."
Clotel or, The President's Daughter (Modern Library Classics) द्वारा William Wells Brown, HiltonAls, Graham Russell Hodges Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2001 द्वारा Modern Library Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-679-78323-7, ISBN: 0-679-78323-7
"The first novel published by an African American, Clotel takes up the story, in circulation at the time, that Thomas Jefferson fathered an illegitimate mulatto daughter who was sold into slavery. Powerfully reimagining this story, and weaving together a variety of contemporary source materials, Brown fills the novel with daring escapes and encounters, as well as searing depictions of the American slave trade. An innovative and challengi ..."
"Our Town is published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Museum of the City of New York and the centennial of the consolidation of the city's five boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Its illustrations, many of which have never before been published, reproduce paintings, etchings, lithographs, and photographs by such artists as Rembrandt Peale, Edward Moran, and Reginald Marsh, as well as clothing ..."
Sue Kwon(1st Edition) Street Level: New York Photographs 1987-2007 द्वारा Sue Kwon, HiltonAls, Testify Books Hardcover, 224 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Testify Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9725920-6-2, ISBN: 0-9725920-6-7
"Street Level collects 20 years of documentary and commercial photography by esteemed New York photographer Sue Kwon. Her subjects include some of Hip Hop's finest, such as the Beastie Boys, Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan, as well as portraits and street scenes from New York's most charismatic neighborhoods--Little Italy, Chinatown, Coney Island, the Lower East Side and a pre-Guiliani Times Square. These black-and-white images, chara ..."
"African-American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been acclaimed internationally for her candid investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the lens of reconceived historical tropes. She had her first solo show at The Drawing Center in New York City in 1994 and, at the age of 28 in 1997, was one of the youngest people to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. This publication documents "Dust Jackets for the Niggerati--and Supporti ..."
"Painter, novelist and wrestler, Drexler is the great polymath of PopRosalyn Drexler has always moved between worlds. In the late 1950s and early ’60s, she showed sculpture at New York’s Reuben Gallery, a gathering place for artists like Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg who combined installation and performance with traditional media. Drexler took part in Happenings at Reuben Gallery and at Judson Church (years after her own quasi-perfor ..."
White Girls(Reprint) द्वारा HiltonAls Paperback, 304 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-313475-6, ISBN: 0-14-313475-2
""This book will change you." --Chicago TribuneWhite Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender and true, it is one of the most daring and provocative books of recent years, an invaluable guide to the culture of our time."
Pride Photographs After Stonewall द्वारा Fred W. Mcdarrah, HiltonAls Paperback, 240 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Or Books ISBN-13: 978-1-949017-11-3, ISBN: 1-949017-11-7
"The ultimate visual chronicle of life in New York's gay community circa 1970, by the incomparable Fred McDarrah, released in time for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion and World Pride Day in June 2019. Fifty years ago this spring, the Stonewall uprising occurred in Greenwich Village--an event that marked the coming-out of New York's gay community and a refusal by gays to accept underground status that was as important in ..."
Fashion Climbing(Reprint) A Memoir द्वारा Bill Cunningham, HiltonAls Paperback, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2019 द्वारा Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-525-55872-9, ISBN: 0-525-55872-1
"The New York Times bestseller“[An] obscenely enjoyable romp.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe untold story of a New York City legend's education in creativity and styleFor Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed ..."
"The early fiction of one of the nation’s most celebrated writers, Truman Capote, as he takes his first bold steps into the canon of American literatureRecently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This col ..."
"A stunning mid-career retrospective Mark Bradford is best known for dazzling, large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class-, race-, and gender-based economies that structure urban society in the United States. Gathering carefully chosen found and salvaged materials from the area surrounding his studio in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, Bradford engages in an intricate artistic process that involves both creation a ..."
Satchmo(1st Edition) The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong द्वारा Steven Brower, HiltonAls Hardcover, 256 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2009 द्वारा Harry N. Abrams ISBN-13: 978-0-8109-9528-4, ISBN: 0-8109-9528-X
""Satchmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong "is a biography in the form of an art book. It tells the story of Armstrong's life through his writings, scrapbooks, and artworks, many of which have never been published before. Armstrong was the single greatest creative artist in the history of jazz and the American popular song. A true American original, he was prolific in coining colorful expressions that entered the lexicon; ..."
" Lorna Simpson is one of the leading artists of her generation, devoted to the beauty of image-making, innovatively juxtaposing the figure and gesture with text and narrative. This rich monograph, created to accompany the major retrospective of Simpson's work touring in Los Angeles, Miami, and New York (among other destinations) beginning this spring, includes insightful essays by curator and critic Okwui Enwezor and New Yorker writer H ..."
"In the decades just prior to the eruption of the American civil rights movement in the late '50s, Chester Himes was one of the most significant African American authors--although today he is less well known than several of his contemporaries. He wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and a powerful, searing autobiography, and he did so with an economy of language, a graceful eloquence, and a painful yet unflinching directne ..."
"The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 blacks between 1882 and 1950. This is probably a small percentage of these murders, which were seldom reported, and led to the creation of the NAACP in 1909, an organization dedicated to passing federal anti-lynching laws. Through all this terror and carnage someone -- many times a professional photographer -- carried a camera and took pictures of the events. These lynching photograph ..."
"A friend to and supporter of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers, Baldwin was the voice of a movement-a voice that struggled after his early recognition as a creator to retain the author's "I," while taking on the "We" of ..."
"In conjunction with the exhibition Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show, The CJM has published a 224-page fully-illustrated hardcover catalog with contributions by Hilton Als, A. Sergio Bessa, David Bonetti, Fran Drescher, Anastasia James, Rhonda Leiberman, Cary Leibowitz, Simon Lince, and Glen Helfand."
The Women(1st Edition) द्वारा Shawn HiltonAls Paperback, 160 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 1998 द्वारा Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52529-3, ISBN: 0-374-52529-3