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Book Club Picks for September 2021

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Albert and the Whale , by Philip Hoare (Pegasus). This idiosyncratic account of the life, work, and afterlife of the Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer considers “how art imagines our world.” Hoare shows Dürer’s responsiveness to his times. Copernicus and Martin Luther had ushered in a world “shifting nervously in space,” and printing (the “currency” of Dürer’s fame) and trade fostered unprecedented connectivity. Hoare also places his subject in a surprising lineage of artists including William Blake, Marianne Moore, Thomas Mann, and Andy Warhol. These comparisons elucidate Dürer’s radicalism, and establish him as a revolutionary and thoroughly modern artist. Hoare writes, “Before Dürer, dragons existed; after him, they did not.”

The role of bookstores in fighting white supremacy; storytelling for a good cause; and a fund-raiser for WriteBoston

The role of bookstores in fighting white supremacy; storytelling for a good cause; and a fund-raiser for WriteBoston Nina MacLaughlin © Tyson Alan Horne Tayari Jones is part of the Pink Pages fund-raising event for the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital. What can a bookstore do? In the insightful, nuanced, and clear-eyed new pamphlet “The Least We Can Do: White Supremacy, Free Speech, and Independent Bookstores” (Biblioasis), Josh Cook, author and bookseller at Porter Square Books in Cambridge, raises powerful questions about freedom of expression and the role of bookstores in fighting against white supremacy. It’s a timely reckoning. What does it mean to stock books by misogynists, white supremacists, racists, and fascists on the shelves? “When you tolerate White supremacists in your space, your space becomes a White supremacist space,” Cook writes. He puts the onus on big publishers, responsible for offering the book deals, but argues

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