Everything That Rises:
A Book of Convergences

From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge — at least, it does through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of essays that are sure to illuminate, educate, and astound.

"From the general mass of heavy-handed, pompous writing about art, Weschler's graceful collection of essays and interviews stands out like a rare bloom. Charming, idiosyncratic and deeply intelligent, the book will likely captivate even readers who usually bypass the art history section of bookstores."
—Publishers Weekly (to read the full review, click here)

"Weschler takes separate strands of the world's body, its history and common stock of images, and reconfigures them into beautiful web works."
—The Globe and Mail (to read the full review, click here)

To celebrate the release of Lawrence Weschler's Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, we had an extravagant contest: A Convergence of Convergences. See all the winners and their convergences here.