The Written Image: Ice Receding/Books Reseeding

Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt.
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Artist Basia Irland carves book sculptures out of ice and embeds them with seeds that populate riverbanks when the sculptures melt.
An author tells a fantastical story by writing it a word at a time in the snow.
Heaven’s Vault, a video game by inkle, requires players to translate the runes of an ancient language.
Copies of Joe Sacksteder’s story collection, Make/Shift, have been fashioned into a couture dress.
A Houston artist turns outdated manuals, phone books, and encyclopedias into visually striking sculptures.
A graphic memoirist explores issues of race, identity, family, and America through conversations with her six-year-old son.
Colorful illustrations accompany notes, quotes, and literary trivia about books to read and bookstores to visit.
Ex-library books are catalogued in a new home.
A new graphic novel out from Montreal comics publisher Drawn & Quarterly.
Julia Pierpont and Manjit Thapp’s new book features a hundred women who have changed the world.