Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass. “As a ten-screen film installation, Lessons of the Hour proposes a contemplative journey into Frederick Douglass’s zeitgeist and its relationship to contemporaneity. This lush, ambitious 272-page volume pays homage to Douglass’s lessons interpreted by Isaac Julien. Tipped-in portraits of Douglass and Ray Fearon, the actor that plays him in the installation, are centered between the title, set in a classic treatment of Didot borrowed from the masthead of the North Star, Douglass’s antislavery newspaper.” 272 pages, 9½ × 11¾, casebound hardcover with slipcase, printed endpapers, Smyth-sewn.