Hugh Raffles
Author · 1 book
Hugh Raffles is an anthropologist and the author of three award-winning books. His essays appeared in both popular and academic publications, including Granta, Cabinet, The Best American Essays, The New York Times, and The New York Review of Books. He received the Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction and the Literature Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Book of Unconformities received the J. I. Staley Prize from the School for Advanced Research in 2023. Raffles has also written about the work of artists Tomás Saraceno and Cornelia Hesse-Honegger.