Egg

Nicole Walker's 'Egg' relishes in sharp juxtapositions of seemingly fanciful or repellent topics, so that reproductive science and gustatory habits are considered alongside one another, and personal narrative and broad swaths of natural history jostle, like yolk and albumen.

Mapping curious eggs across times, scales, and spaces, the book draws together surprising perspectives on this common object - egg, as food, as art object, as metaphor and feminist symbol, as cultural icon.