Between the Lines: A New Novel Draws Its Shape From Eva Hesse

A new novel is taking its cues from the studio rather than the page. Kate Zambreno's latest work builds its structure around the spirit of Eva Hesse, the sculptor whose latex, fiberglass, and foam pieces reshaped what materials could do in art. The book uses that same attention to texture and form to sit with questions of privilege and precarity. For readers who collect Hesse's era as closely as they read about it, it is a rare case of a novel built like a piece of sculpture.

With reporting from ARTnews.