Reads tagged with “omnibus”
7 Essential Books on Street Art
What Japan’s manhole covers have to do with Brazil’s favelas and the timeless tradition of Arabic calligraphy.
Comic Books for Grown-Ups: 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Seeing the world in six-panel strips, or what Allen Ginsberg has to do with the wonders of zygotes.
7 (More) Little-Known Children’s Books by Celebrated Authors of Literature for Grownups
What a magical car engine has to do with social justice, a parrot named Arturo and the history of jazz.
7 Celebrations of Nelson Mandela
What Apartheid has to do with Victorian poetry and using peace as a weapon of mass reconstruction.
Before Walt Disney: 5 Animations by Early Cinema Pioneers
What a shape-shifting egg has to do with racehorses and the science of facial expressions.
Digital Humanities Spotlight: 7 Important Digitization Projects
From Darwin’s marginalia to Voltaire’s correspondence, or what Dalí’s controversial World’s Fair pavilion has to do with digital myopia.
10 Essential Books on Typography
What Arab culture has to do with industrial ideals, midcentury design and Victorian hand-lettering.
7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Grown-Up Literature
What a moral cat has to do with a lost boy, a happy prince and the rules for little girls.
7 Fundamental Meditations on Faith
What the magician Penn Gillette has to do with a ring of earth 700 miles north of the equator.
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