David Shrigley, Try to Understand Your Emotions, 2020

Try to understand your emotions: a Sunday goal, as set by British artist David Shrigley. This drawing is included in The Book of Emotions, edited by Edgar Gerrard Hughes and published by Redstone Press—one of several new publications to feature in our recommended reading list for Elephant’s current issue. The book is “a scattered compendium of essays, games, tests and inquiries probing the nature of emotion via history, science, art and literature”, writes Ravi Ghosh, and its contents will soothe, surprise, provoke and inform. Find out which other titles we’re loving right now in Elephant 46.