Louis Shankar looks at David Wojnarowicz’s textual comments about his own work, which frame his art for an anticipated viewer.

In a thorough examination of the essayistic potential of the photobook, Robby Bishop slowly turns pages with Alec Soth’s guided readings on YouTube.

Bruce M. King addresses ekphrasis’s mythic origins with the Shield of Achilles, which illustrates a world beyond the war in which the heroes who populate the Iliad will be obsolete, a confusion summed up in Achilles’s wordless scream on the battlefield after the loss of Patroklos.