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.

Emily Singeisen contextualizes AI, a technologically novel way of exploiting language, within some very old fantasies.