The Labyrinth. Saul Steinberg
Hardcover, 288 pages, 27x3x24 cm November 2018, New York Review Books
Saul Steinberg's The Labyrinth, first published in 1960 and long out of print, is more than a simple catalog or collection of drawings. These carefully curated pages chronicle a brilliant and ever-evolving imagination that confronts modern life. Here is Steinberg, as he himself said at the time, discovering and inventing a wide variety of events: "Illusion, conversations, music, women, cats, dogs, birds, the cube, the crocodile, the museum, Moscow and Samarkand (winter 1956), other Eastern countries, America, motels, baseball, horse racing, bullfighting, art, frozen music, words, geometry, heroes, harpies, etc.». This edition, with a new introduction by Nicholson Baker, an afterword by Harold Rosenberg and new notes on the artwork, will allow readers to rediscover this unique and wonderful book.
