Damon Krukowski
During the heyday of the LP, commercial record labels created both fantastic—and fantastically bad—album covers, but the experienced hands of a few and the watchful eyes of the many kept most record cover art more or less within the boundaries of professionalism. The private-press LPs documented in this spectacularly fun coffee-table book routinely cross those […] 
Georges Perec was the author of crossword puzzles, which might lead one to assume that his literary works likewise have solutions. But to say his most famous novel, La Disparition (A Void [1969]), written without the letter e, is solved by its premise is to dismiss its puzzling qualities as literature. His book of dreams, La Boutique Obscure, illuminates a conundrum at the heart of Perec’s project: Dreams, despite a plethora of clues, do not have solutions. They are all clue. Or as Perec writes, describing one of these dreams, “From far away, it looks like there is a nearly