Activists, ambassadors, and award-winning journalists offer their incisive analysis of the American occupation of Iraq in this timely collection of essays, featuring the arresting photography of Lynsey Addario. Topics include American economic interests in the war, the mainstream media coverage that made it politically feasible, escalating abuse of Muslim women by both American troops and an increasingly fundamentalist Middle East citizenry, the profiteering of multinationals like Halliburton and Bechtel, and more. Contributors are: Lynsey Addario, Fadhil al-Azzawi, Medea Benjamin, Tiosha Bojorquez Chapela, Kristina Borjesson, Anne E. Brodsky, Mike Davis, Jodie Evans, Tahmeena Faryal, Sandra Fu, Amy Goodman, Amir Hussain, Eman Ahmed Khammas, Naomi Klein, Mark LeVine, Yanar Mohammed, Viggo Mortensen, Christian Parenti, Jerry Quickley, Omid Safi, Lauren Sandler, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, Nadia Yassine

Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation

History

Viggo Mortensen

Mark LeVine

Jodie Evans

Military

Perceval Press

Horses as partners, as teachers, as fellow travelers asking no favors and returning respect for respect. The horse is good. These images by Viggo Mortensen are from Morocco, South Dakota, Montana, California, Iceland, New Zealand, Denmark, Brazil, Argentina, and perhaps from the view out your window. As Joseph Campbell put it, "Once having traversed the threshold, the hero moves in a dream landscape of curiously fluid, ambiguous forms, where he must survive a succession of trials." The horse as hero.Hardcover, 7.5 x 10.5 inches, 80 pages

Horse is God

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Viggo Mortensen: Skovbo

Travel

Pictorial

Linger

Perceval

By Viggo Mortensen. This book functions as a partial companion to the upcoming photo exhibit , also titled Skovbo (which roughly translates from Danish as "home in the forest"), by Viggo Mortensen at the Reykjavik Museum of Photography (Ljósmyndasafn Reykjavikur), opening on 31st May, 2008 and running until 31st August, 2008. In this new collection of images and poems are trees and the memory of trees, ghosts, words, nights, days, lives, deaths, and safe haven for them all in the place where "...the twigs become branches, / And the mist becomes make-believe..." (Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam). If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens. $30, 124pp, 9" W x 11.25" H, Softcover, 978-0981974705

The pictures in this book have been made with different cameras, techniques, and, unavoidably, with all the longing, love, laughter, doubts, and mistakes that have shaped my life so far. I've given them titles and dates, but they do not represent a chronology of events or a conscious point-of-view. As always, more than I can possibly imagine has been left out of these glimpses of what is ultimately ungraspable, unnameable. I dedicate this distillation of isolated instants to my brothers, Charles and Walter, and to our father. Viggo Mortensen, October, 2017

Viggo Mortensen - Ramas Para Un Nido

LO QUE NO SE PUEDE ESCRIBIR

Eudaimonia

Poems are layered in paintings-obscured, written over, then painted again. Found objects are treated lovingly and elevated above their humble throwaway status. Old and new rub against each other in textured works that suggest a fractured narrative composed of the artist's visual and emotional memories. This volume is an extraordinary look into the process and mind of an artist whose boundless creative output touches a myriad of media and modes of expression. Included in the book are writings, paintings, collages, assemblages, found objects, and photographs that point to the fluidity of meaning of a world in flux, as well as a special spoken-word and music CD by Mortensen. Mortensen is best known for his outstanding performances in films such as A Perfect Murder, GI Jane, and Portrait of A Lady, and Gus Van Sant's Psycho. He is also the author of several books of poetry and other writings.

Recent Forgeries (Book & CD-ROM)

Smart Art Press

Open City features fiction, poetry, and artwork from a dynamic range of voices -- from established writers such as Michael Cunningham, Irvine Welsh, and Mary Gaitskill, to emerging talents like Sam Lipsyte, Meghan Daum, and David Berman, to classic voices from the past including Delmore Schwartz, Allen Ginsberg, and Richard Yates. Open City features writing and art preoccupied with the forces effecting the character -- physical, intellectual, and emotional -- of New York City and the city in general, providing readers with an urban portrait of a literary generation in the making. With its unique blend of great storytelling with avant-garde styles, Open City "takes the old literary magazine format and revitalizes it for a new generation's tastes."(Library Journal) Open City 18 includes stories by Bruce Jay Friedman, Rick DeMarinis, and Martha McPhee; art by Al Ruppersberg and Nina Katchadourian; and a special poetry section edited by Honor Moore. "A range of style and voices, both raw and cooked-ranging from highly slick and intellectual to twisted and experimental." -- The New York Times Book Review

Open City #18: Winter 2003-2004

Literature & Fiction

Nick Tosches

Open City Magazine

Eileen Myles

Literary

Grove Press, Open City Books

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