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FAMILY FRAMESCURATED BY KATHRYN HARRISONFEATURING WORK BY HANNAH ALTMAN, SASKIA BADEN, SAMANTHA BRINKLEY, MARISA CHAVETZ, LAURA BETH DAVIDSON, CAMILLE DESANTO, SYDNEY ELLISON, GABI GONZALEZ, ANNA GREVENITIS, TAMAR HAYTAYAN, ELIZABETH HIBBARD, MEGAN KELLY, CHARIS MORGAN, REBECCA MORRELLO, BECCA MOSKOWITZ, MICHAELA NAGYIDAIOVA, SARAH PERLMUTTER, PREMSTAR SANTANA, HEATHER RATTRAY, JESS VOAS, AND MADESSYN ZAHNI am thrilled to present this selection of photographs and to recognize these photographers for their work and contributions to conversations surrounding one of the most universal yet least acknowledged forms of personal and cultural expression -- family photographs. To me, family photographs are layered with complexity and nuance, which can multiply and magnify with time. They can cross into larger public spheres, challenging contexts and concepts of image-making and conventions. This selection of thirty photographs made by twenty women reveals a profound sensibility and striking curiosity concerning and responding to the ideas of family, self-representation, and community. Thank you to everyone who submitted and congratulations to those featured.- Kathryn Harrison, Curator of "Family Frames"

From the author of the bestselling THE BINDING CHAIR comes an extraordinary tale of desire set in the snowfields of 1917 Alaska.

The author of The Kiss tells the story of two women - a Chinese girl named May and her Western niece, Alice - whose lives intersect in turn-of-the-century Shanghai.

Kathryn Harrison gives us a Joan of Arc for our time--a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the royal court, during a brutally rigged inquisition and imprisonment, and in the face of her death. In this new take on Joan's story, Harrison deftly weaves historical fact, myth, folklore, scripture, artistic representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a fascinating narrative, revitalizing our sense of Joan as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.

Within Canada the renewed importance of environmental issues in recent years has given rise to legislative and regulatory initiatives by both the federal and provincial governments which, in turn, has led to increased intergovernmental conflict. Recent jurisdictional disputes over the Quebec government's James Bay hydro development, the Al-Pac pulp mill and Oldman River dam in Alberta and the Rafferty-Alameda dam in Saskatchewan, to name but a few, have led to increasingly important debate on the appropriate balance of federal and provincial roles in environmental policy.Passing the Buck is the first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy. The book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The author challenges the widespread assumption that federal and provincial governments invariably compete to extend their jurisdiction. Using well-researched case studies and extensive research to support her argument, the author points out that the combination of limited public attention to the environment and strong opposition from potentially regulated interests yields significant political costs and limited political benefits. As a result, for the most part, the federal government has been content to leave environmental protection to the provinces. In effect, the federal system has allowed the federal government to pass the buck to the provinces and shirk the political challenge of environmental protection.Of particular importance to those in environmental studies, policy planning, political science, and law, Passing the Buck makes an original contribution to the literature of Canadian federalism and environmental policy. It is timely both in light of growing awareness of environmental challenges facing Canada and its examination of how we, and other countries around the world, adapt and rearrange our political systems to cope with large-scale ecological change.

Within Canada the renewed importance of environmental issues in recent years has given rise to legislative and regulatory initiatives by both the federal and provincial governments which, in turn, has led to increased intergovernmental conflict. Recent jurisdictional disputes over the Quebec government's James Bay hydro development, the Al-Pac pulp mill and Oldman River dam in Alberta and the Rafferty-Alameda dam in Saskatchewan, to name but a few, have led to increasingly important debate on the appropriate balance of federal and provincial roles in environmental policy.Passing the Buck is the first in-depth study of the impact of federalism on Canadian environmental policy. The book takes a detailed look at the ongoing debate on the subject and traces the evolution of the role of the federal government in environmental policy and federal-provincial relations concerning the environment from the late 1960s to the early 1990s. The author challenges the widespread assumption that federal and provincial governments invariably compete to extend their jurisdiction. Using well-researched case studies and extensive research to support her argument, the author points out that the combination of limited public attention to the environment and strong opposition from potentially regulated interests yields significant political costs and limited political benefits. As a result, for the most part, the federal government has been content to leave environmental protection to the provinces. In effect, the federal system has allowed the federal government to pass the buck to the provinces and shirk the political challenge of environmental protection.Of particular importance to those in environmental studies, policy planning, political science, and law, Passing the Buck makes an original contribution to the literature of Canadian federalism and environmental policy. It is timely both in light of growing awareness of environmental challenges facing Canada and its examination of how we, and other countries around the world, adapt and rearrange our political systems to cope with large-scale ecological change.

For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by a writer of extraordinary gifts (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak. A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face."

The author of Seeking Rapture and The Kiss recounts how a family emergency renewed her battle with depression and anorexia, a period during which she vividly remembered her relationship with her overly critical mother. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

"Luminous and affecting . . . Exposure] examines the often fine line between art and abuse. . . . Taut in plot, beautifully realistic, and intelligently disturbing."-Harper's Bazaar Ann Rogers appears to be a happily married, successful young woman. A talented photographer, she creates happy memories for others, videotaping weddings, splicing together scenes of smiling faces, editing out awkward moments. But she cannot edit her own memories so easily-images of a childhood spent as her father's model and muse, the subject of his celebrated series of controversial photographs. To cope, Ann slips into a secret life of shame and vice. But when the Museum of Modern Art announces a retrospective of her father's shocking portraits, Ann finds herself teetering on the edge of self-destruction, desperately trying to escape the psychological maelstrom that threatens to consume her. "Astounding . . . told in prose as multifaceted as a diamond, crystalline and mesmerizing. 'Remarkable' hardly goes far enough."-Cosmopolitan "Impossible to put down . . . Kathryn Harrison is an extremely gifted writer, poetic, passionate, and elegant."-San Francisco Chronicle "Exquisite, exhilarating, and harrowing."-Donna Tartt, author of The Secret History and The Little Friend "A breathless urban nightmare not easy to forget. Stark, brilliant, and original work."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

A sexually obsessed New York psychoanalyst in the midst of a midlife crisis, William Moreland comes face to face with a woman he had loved twenty-five years earlier during a college reunion, an encounter that leads to shocking revelations about their relationship, growing sexual fantasies about his patients, and the discovery of long-buried family secrets. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

In this acclaimed and groundbreaking memoir, Kathryn Harrison transforms into a work of art the darkest passage imaginable in a young woman's life: an obsessive love affair between father and daughter that begins when she, at age twenty, is reunited with the father whose absence had haunted her youth. Exquisitely and hypnotically written, like a bold and terrifying dream, The Kiss is breathtaking in its honesty and in the power and beauty of its creation. A story both of transgression and of family complicity in breaking taboo, The Kiss is also about love--about the most primal of love triangles, the one that ensnares a child between mother and father.

'This is a tale as absorbing and exciting as Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha.' Sunday Express The magical tale of a young orphan's adventures after she flees rural China for turn-of-the-century Shanghai. From Kathryn Harrison, author of the bestselling memoir THE KISS.

Det är 1917 i Sankt Petersburg. Tsaren har avsatts och i Alexanderpalatset väntar tsarfamiljen Romanov oroligt på bolsjevikernas nästa steg. Rasputin, den karismatiske predikanten som varit tsaritsans helare och förtrogna, har mördats. Hans dotter Masja hämtas till palatset – kanske hon har samma botande förmåga som hennes far hade? Kanske hon kan skydda familjen från att gå under? I Rasputins dotter berättar Kathryn Harrison om tsarfamiljens sista nervpirrande månader. De är instängda i sitt palats, tsar Nikolajev, hans hustru Alexandra, de fyra döttrarna och den blödarsjuke sonen Aleksej, som kallas Aljosja. Och Masja kan verkligen hjälpa dem – inte genom helbrägdagörelse utan genom sina berättelser. Mellan henne och den ömtålige sonen, som på grund av sin sjukdom måste avstå från alla vanliga nöjen men ändå måste försöka verka frisk, växer beroendet och samhörigheten. ”Snälla Masja, fortsätt”, sade Aljosja varje gång jag blev tyst. ”Jag tycker om att lyssna på din röst.” Då gjorde jag det. Jag berättade för honom om Far, om mig, om Sibirien. Jag berättade sagor som Far hade berättat för oss när vi var små. Jag gjorde allt jag kunde för att få honom att tänka på annat.Familjen Romanov äger en samling Fabergé-ägg, konstfullt utsirade juvelerararbeten som innehåller miniatyrvärldar. Ett av dem innehåller en modell av Alexanderpalatset, ett palats i palatset. På samma sätt innehåller Rasputins dotter berättelser i berättelsen, små världar som ger verkligheten ny innebörd. Boken är både en kärlekshistoria och en historisk roman av en av Amerikas främsta författare.