Olivia Kan-Sperling

3 weeks ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling April 3, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.

1 month ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling March 4, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.

1 month ago | flash---art.com | Olivia Kan-Sperling

What is “raw material” in an age of ready-mades? For Coumba Samba, it is color. Her show “Red Gas” (2024) at Arcadia Missa, London, interprets diplomacy as a play of surfaces: her sole reference is a photo, taken in June of 2023, that shows Russian president Vladimir Putin shaking hands with then-president of Senegal Macky Sall. They stand on a big blue carpet. The carpet could be anywhere; it happens to be installed in a convention center in St. Petersburg called Expoforum.

2 months ago | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling February 3, 2025 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We sometimes share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.

Nov 4, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Sophie Haigney |Olivia Kan-Sperling

By Sophie Haigney and Olivia Kan-Sperling November 1, 2024 Each month, we comb through dozens of soon-to-be-published books, for ideas and good writing for the Review’s site. Often, we’re struck by particular paragraphs or sentences from the galleys that stack up on our desks and spill over onto our shelves. We often share them with each other on Slack, and we thought, for a change, that we might share them with you.