TANK MAGAZINE | The Book Issue, Summer 2017 | Issue 71 | BUY THIS ISSUE
front
features
- Tank Reader 2017: the third annual compendium of the year’s most important books. Selected with guest editors Barbara Epler, Michael Mack and Nesrine Malik. LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders
- ALICE NEEL, UPTOWN by Hilton Als
- THE TEETH OF THE COMB AND OTHER STORIES by Osama Alomar
- THIS YOUNG MONSTER by Charlie Fox
- I AM THE BROTHER OF XX by Fleur Jaeggy
- MAXIMILIAN STEJSKAL – FOLKLIG IDROTT by Marie-Isabel Vogel and Alain Rappaport
- THE END OF EDDY by Édouard Louis
- CHINESE POETIC WRITING by François Cheng
- BIRDS by Hunt Slonem
- THE DEBUTANTE AND OTHER STORIES by Leonora Carrington
- NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC INFOGRAPHICS by Julius Wiedemann
- COMPASS by Mathias Énard
- PHOTOGRAPHY AGAINST THE GRAIN by Allan Sekula
- BAHO! by Roland Rugero
- REFRIGERATED MUSIC FOR A GLEAMING WOMAN by Aimee Parkison
- GOODBYE AMERICA by Brad Feuerhelm
- DEFIANT POSE by Stewart Home
- DEEP SPRINGS by Sam Contis
- GASLIGHT by Joachim Kalka
- HIGHWAY KIND by Justine Kurland
- THE GOLDEN COCKEREL by Juan Rulfo
- UN UNIVERSO PEQUENO by Antonio M. Xoubanova
- THREE MASQUERADES: NOVELLAS by Rachel Ingalls
- NOTHING BUT CLOUDS by Kristina Jurotschkin
- FOUCAULT: THE BIRTH OF POWER by Stuart Elden
- IN MOST TIDES AN ISLAND by Nicholas Muellner
- CRAZY FOR VINCENT by Hervé Guibert
- THE KING IN THE GOLDEN MASK by Marcel Schwob
- WHITEFLY by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
- WHEN I HIT YOU: OR, A PORTRAIT OF THE WRITER AS A YOUNG WIFE by Meena Kandasamy
- SPARKLING PAST by Klaus Speidel and Benjamin Hugard
- TELL ME HOW IT ENDS: AN ESSAY IN FORTY QUESTIONS by Valeria Luiselli
- DESPOTS WITH PHOTOSHOP by Augustin Rebetez
- THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF ABDULLAH OCALAN by Abdullah Öcalan
- DANCE ON THE VOLCANO by Marie Vieux-Chauvet
- ABOUT TO HAPPEN by Cecilia Vicuña
- THE BOOK OF DISQUIET by Fernando Pessoa
- SMOKE by John Berger and Selçuk Demirel
- HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi
- THE MANHATTAN PROJECT by László Krasznahorkai and Ornan Rotem
- INCOMING by Richard Mosse and Giorgio Agamben
- STEPHEN FLORIDA by Gabe Habash
- GIRL PLAYS WITH SNAKE by Clare Strand
- THE DOLL'S ALPHABET by Camilla Grudova
- OTHER RUSSIAS by Victoria Lomasko
- THE WEIRD AND THE EERIE by Mark Fisher
- THE LEVITATORS by Ruth van Beek
- DEBTHS by Susan Howe
fashion
- A SENSE OF PLACE: inspired by the city of Madrid, Josep Font has made Delpozo synonymous with an organic simplicity. Words by Tamsin Blanchard, illustration by OMMX
- UNIFORM ATTITUDE: inside the world of Louise Trotter’s Joseph. Words by Tamsin Blanchard, photography by Maurits Sillem, styling by Nobuko Tannawa
- UNSEEN LANDSCAPES: At her label Toga, Yasuko Furuta is both conservative and radical
- Disencumbered: freed from the shadows of forgotten memories and the weight of intangible dreams. Photography by Hellen van Meene
talk
- ADAM SZYMCZYK & QUINN LATIMER: “You can make political work that has political consequences, totally within the realm of art”
- OTTESSA MOSHFEGH: “I am interested in how we are both of those things: we are spiritual and we’re human poop machines”
- CARAGH THURING: “There are so many competing value systems, so people find stupid ways of negotiating them”
- STUART JEFFRIES: “Could you do Adorno’s F-scale for Trump supporters? Probably. Why not?”
- JUDITH MILGROM: “Rabat is a city whose poetry often comes into the collections”
- GWENDOLINE RILEY: “Sooner or later you just have to come to terms with yourself, which doesn’t mean smiling on all your misdeeds, but rather not being a hostage to them”
- DEBORAH SMITH: “Korea was a complete mystery to me, which was a powerful draw in itself”
- PETER MENDELSUND: “Work that I make, and love, is often killed for little or no good reason”
- LISA PEARSON: “But I’m not alone out here at the margins”
- FLEUR JAEGGY “Promise to mention Erich, and then say very close to nothing”
- MIRROR, MIRROR
