Reads tagged with “books”
Animals Like You’ve Never Seen Them Before
From armadillos to zebras, or what championship chickens have to do with a giant octopus.
The Universal Traveler: A Vintage Guide to Creative Problem-Solving
Navigating the “tourist traps” of creativity, or how to finally reconcile ideation and evaluation.
Carl Warner’s Whimsical Food Landscapes
What the London skyline has to do with asparagus, rhubarb, and Pink Floyd.
Menagerie: Sharon Montrose’s Evocative Portraits of Animals
Earth’s creatures like you’ve never seen them before.
Leonard Weisgard’s Stunning 1949 Alice in Wonderland Illustrations
A vibrant mid-century homage to one of the most beloved children’s books of all time.
How Darwin’s Photographic Studies of Human Emotions Changed Visual Culture
What disdain and devotion have to do with the dawn of photography, evolution, and Lewis Carroll.
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions: Vintage Arsenal of Masonic Pranksters
What Elks, Moose, and Shriners have to do with a fake guillotine and a goat on wheels.
The Ecstasy of Influence: Jonathan Lethem on the Author as a Public Intellectual
A self-conscious reflection on literary self-consciousness, or what David Foster Wallace’s true gift really was.
From Freud’s Couch to Emily Dickinson’s Only Surviving Dress: Annie Leibovitz Catalogs Meta-Cultural Iconography
What Virginia Woolf’s writing table has to do with Darwin’s countryside cottage and Freud’s final couch.
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