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The Dinner Party: Artist Judy Chicago’s Iconic Antidote to the Erasure of Women in the History of Creative Culture
From Hypatia to Susan B. Anthony to Virginia Woolf, a sacrament and an insurrection restoring women’s place in history.
The King of the Birds: The Illustrated Story of Flannery O’Connor and Her Beloved Peacock
“It all started with a chicken who could walk backwards and forwards.”
Pinocchio: An Alternative Origin Story Exploring the Grandest Questions of Existence
A lyrical illustrated cosmogony serenading the ephemeral and the eternal.
The Wolves of Currumpaw: The Illustrated True Story of the Tragic and Redemptive Fate of Wolves in North America
“Each of our native wild creatures is in itself a precious heritage that we have no right to destroy or put beyond the reach of our children.”
The Effortless Effort of Creativity: Jane Hirshfield on Storytelling, the Art of Concentration, and Difficulty as a Consecrating Force of Creative Attention
“In the wholeheartedness of concentration, world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.”
Kindness Over Fear: Naomi Shihab Nye Tells the Remarkable Real-Life Story That Inspired Her Beloved Poem “Kindness”
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, / you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.”
Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Powered Early Space Exploration
A heartening testament to “the triumph of meritocracy” and to the idea that “each of us should be allowed to rise as far as our talent and hard work can take us.”
Aristotle’s Aperture: An Animated History of Photography, from the Camera Obscura to the Camera Phone
…and how a greedy attitude to intellectual property made the camera’s primary competitor perish.
Life on a Möbius Strip: The Greatest Moth Story Ever Told, About the Unlikely Paths That Lead Us Back to Ourselves
“…a living testament to the incredibly improbable trip that we’re on.”
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