Artists spend their lives creating from the contradictions of being alive. In Brandon Taylor’s Minor Black Figures, a painter researching the career of a forgotten Black artist finds himself confronting questions about creativity, belief, friendship, and what it means to make Black art. In Davey Davis’s Casanova 20: Or, Hot World, two friends grapple with aging, mortality, and personal loss spurred by the pandemic. And in Sigrid Nunez’s It Will Come Back to You, decades of short stories trace an evolving literary sensibility while probing death, grief, art, love, and the deeper questions tucked within ordinary life. Together, these three writers consider the complicated relationship between lived experience and artistic creation—and the ways making art can become a way of making a self.
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