Fans of the prolific author/illustrator Edward Gorey will delight in Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer, which chronicles the personal correspondence between the pair as they collaborated on three... Read More

Food photographer and award-winning blogger Béatrice Peltre brings together a delicious array of recipes in her cookbook, La Tartine Gourmande. Based on her blog by the same name, Peltre’s book is a lovely blend of personal... Read More

Few musicians and artists have had as much impact on America’s popular culture as Bob Dylan. Hundreds of books have been written about him, with his lyrics picked apart and analyzed by professors and Dylanologists, but since 1986 this... Read More

"Street Knowledge", by artist and author King Adz, is a groundbreaking, encyclopedic insider’s guide to the world’s fantastically diverse urban landscapes and the arts cultures that identify each of these places as unique... Read More

Filled with the vegetarian recipes sent in from around the world from friends of Oxford’s New Internationalist magazine, this cookbook has the cozy, chatty feel of those fundraiser recipe books churches pull together, but with much... Read More

“During recent years there has been a growing interest in devising some plan for checking or limiting the tide of immigration whose waves sweep in upon the United States almost daily in constantly increasing volume,” wrote Simon... Read More

As David Ellis Evans and Ivor Hughes note, modern people live in a device-driven world. Most read, talk, research, and relax on computers and cell phones, oftentimes without ever wondering how this high tech world came to be so. Thanks... Read More

“No one can humiliate you like your parents. No one else in the world has that tremendous power: the same power we have over our own children.” So declares Ernesto, the antihero in Ana María Shua’s latest novel, whose relationship... Read More