Sometimes, a routine police-booking photograph of a criminal suspect gets pushed to the popular culture foreground on the crest of an accused offense — Jane Fonda with a raised-fist power salute mocking an arrest for a falsified drug charge, for example, or Charles Manson with a very real swastika carved into his forehead. The mug shot shows the suspect’s head …
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 …
