Read Any Good Pictures Lately? In Reading Pictures: a history of love and hate, a sequel to his A History of Reading, Argentinian writer and critic Alberto Manguel “coax(es) every possible allusion from the shadows… deconstruct(ing) the picture’s meaning for the artist while enriching the viewer’s understanding of what we are looking at, and why our responses can be so intense and complex”, in a meandering, eclectic way. The Independent