5 Books on Dena Yago’s Shelf

Across writing, painting, and her “trend forecasting” collective K-HOLE, Dena Yago is an armchair theorist of those aesthetic sensibilities so banal and pernicious—so normal and boring—that they could easily go unnoticed. Thrillingly, this makes them all the more fascinating. Yago has turned her attention to such phenomena as the Amazon bags that have become urban tumbleweeds, and to the subtly evolving meanings of ordinary words like “capacity.” Often, when o