The world is indeed a small place, and Thandie M. V. has crafted a playful and educational book that highlights diversity and similarity. A children’s book about how small our world really is, To Catch a Rainbow: Connecting People,... Read More

This is celebration sincere and genuine, an appreciation by an artist whose love for his art and for his subject shines through every print. Categorizing Alec Dempster’s "Lotería Huasteca" as an art book is tricky. Nominally a book of... Read More

An engaging, at times playful, overview of the major art movements through history, all placed in historical context. Martin Kemp, emeritus professor of the history of art at Oxford, as well as an expert on da Vinci, has several... Read More

These seventeen exceptionally well-written essays explain that an unprecedented explosion of data injures the restorative nature of certain important ways of thinking. Sven Birkert’s Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the... Read More

Mental laziness, overblown belief in self, and indifference to political awareness all serve to enfeeble the American experiment. In The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism, editors Mark... Read More

This book provides the stark contrast between names and actual historical events in cases where one version of history is promoted over another. "Re-Collecting Black Hawk" puts forth a provocative and thorough examination of how a... Read More

Research and enthusiasm merge to show how otherworldly creatures in Japanese folklore have enriched cultural experience. For author and scholar Michael Dylan Foster, a little keepsake kappa doll kept on top of a refrigerator sparked a... Read More

Examining the history, function, and impact of paper on society, Müller reveals how the age of books and the age of the Internet are connected, not in opposition. Lothar Müller’s "White Magic" presents the evolution of paper from its... Read More