Book Review Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring By Brad Gooch HarperCollins: 512 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Within the next five years, he would make more than five thousand chalk drawings throughout New York City’s five boroughs,” Gooch writes, …
Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans and critics Declan Fry and Cher Tan. The resulting list features a story of female coming-of-age set inside Warhol's Factory; an "autobiography of the audience" that asks if we can enjoy the art of bad people; a freewheeling historical fiction …