Reads tagged with “New York”
What Makes a Great City: E.B. White on the Poetics of New York
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry.”
An Illustrated Taxonomy of City Bikes and Cyclist Archetypes
From hipster habits to midlife crises, a morphology of urban life on two wheels.
A Love Letter to the City
How artist Steve Powers made sign painting the voice of the community and the shared narrative of urban life.
Industrial Sublime: How New York City’s Bridges and Rivers Became a Muse of Modernism
How a city of contrasts inspired a generation of artists.
Why New York City Is Known as “The Big Apple”
A brief history of brilliant branding.
Whitman’s Urban Reverie: A Passionate Ode to the City from the Poet Laureate of Nature
“Give me comrades and lovers by the thousand!.. Give me the streets of Manhattan!”
Hello, New York: Julia Rothman’s Illustrated Love Letter to Gotham’s Five Boroughs
From bodegas to bras, a visual serenade to Gotham’s emblems and eccentricities.
Herman and Rosie: An Illustrated Ode to Finding a Sense of Purpose and Belonging in the Big City
Why life is like jazz on a New York City rooftop.
The Best Photography Books of 2013
From Mongolia to Mars, by way of mesmerizing mines and Manhattan’s characters.
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