When valentina.diliscia first heard of Es Devlin’s latest project, a 50-foot revolving library plunked on the sands of Miami Beach at 32nd and Collins in partnership with Faena Art, her immediate thought was how much better this sounded than so many of the gratuitous beach artworks she’s stared at miserably over the years. Devlin’s piece, “Library of Us,” is filled with books, which the public is invited to read. The books will be donated to various organizations in Miami at the end of the work’s run, a commendable act at a time of rising book bans and censorship in Florida. “In her address, which struck me as very genuine,” Di LIscia writes, “Devlin spoke of her longing for the days when she used to ‘live in a book.’ She mourns her attention span for books, whose loss she attributes to owning a smartphone, and says she wanted to invite people to engage again with the act of reading.” “I watched this premise fall apart almost instantly after Devlin’s speech,” Di Liscia continues, “as...