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'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily TelegraphNo issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families can be wrecked by a single deadly act.Bloodbath Nation traces the origins of America's obsession with guns through one hundred and eighty years of history. The armed conflict against the native population and the brutal methods used to protect the institution of slavery created a nation that has never fully come to terms with its own past.This fraught heritage still hovers over the social and political landscape of the present moment. Change is necessary but it seems all but impossible. Auster asks the ultimate question: what kind of country do Americans want to live in? The answer, he argues, will not come from the legislature, but from the American people themselves.
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Wreckage, Spencer Ostrander’s visual study of ruined car bodies, began in 2023 when he was driving his father-in-law, Paul Auster, ill with cancer, for five weeks of radiation treatment from Park Slope in Brooklyn to the Upper East Side of Manhattan and back again. For years, Ostrander passed the impounded vehicles outside the 90th Street Police Precinct in Brooklyn, without giving them much notice. Then, one day, he saw them as if for the first time, and a project was born.The resulting photographs are haunting documents of collision, the mangled remains of unknown human stories. Told in the language of vivid color and abstract form, they bear mute witness to the drivers and passengers, to the flesh and blood missing from the pictures, and to the strangeness of mortality itself.