Tenderly researched.

Marvelous, crisply written.

Things that burn bright and vanish are easily idealized, but in The Slip...the critic Prudence Peiffer opts for a tricky blend of mythmaking and myth-busting.

Throughout the book’s first half or thereabouts, Peiffer advances her premise by weaving historical facts about the Coenties Slip into the artists’ stories, interjections that sometimes weigh down her narratives’ otherwise ascending arcs.

An intriguing biography.

A fond portrait.