Nan Goldin The Ballad Of Sexual DependencyNew Published by Aperture Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, Suzanne Fletcher. Text by Nan Goldin. First published in 1986, Nan Goldins The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a visual diary chronicling the struggles for intimacy and understanding among the friends and lovers whom Goldin describes as her tribe. These photographs described a lifestyle that was visceral, charged and seething with a raw appetite for living, and the book soon became the

Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't looking

The same goes for this novel

there was debt

Clarence Major

Since the 2016 publication of her debut novel Surveys

Writing in the register of an emotional fugue state

In the nearly seven decades since its publication in France in 1958

A 2025 International Booker Prize Longlist Nominee

Extensively illustrated with photography from Helen Levitt's black and white work

while another malevolent force seems to overtake an unsuspecting family

these touchstones of human invention and storytelling ingenuity have transported millions of readers to distant realms

and the strangers they sat next to on airplanes