Who says gift books need to be clunky coffee table doorstops featuring pictures of woven baskets or the marsupial mole in its natural habitat? From tattoos to running to a look inside a prison and a concentration camp, these eight indie... Read More
Here’s a crop of snappy new cookbooks that are bright with healthy flavors and tuned in to seasonal availability of highquality, locally grown and crafted ingredients. Spurning industrialized agriculture and food production, these... Read More
Graphic novels get a bad rap: for being escapist, for being “easy reading,” for not going enough in depth. In defiance of those unfair stereotypes, these four graphic novels from our Summer Issue tackle subjects both historical and... Read More
Attention librarians: This is not a drill. The emergency is real and the danger imminent. Libraries, especially in rural areas, are at great risk. Due to a combination of cash-strapped local communities that depend on municipal budgets to... Read More
A beast wanders out of the bog and becomes a poem that overlays the world—a world in which nothing is as it seems. Luna is born in a town that believes it must sacrifice a baby each year to a witch in the woods for their own... Read More
Perhaps the first serious collector to recognize photography as a worthy art form, Samuel J. Wagstaff acquired more than 26,000 photographs between 1973 and 1984, often with the assistance of his one-time lover Robert Mapplethorpe. His... Read More
What used to be the cause celebre of sailors, convicts, circus acts, and bikers now colors the flesh of 20 percent of Americans—yes, tattoos are suddenly hip and fashionable. With 300 striking photographs, this coffee-table-worthy... Read More
More than a few motion pictures have captivated audiences with the image of a villainous, all-powerful prison warden and, in many cases in our nation’s history of incarceration, the caricature was accurate. But beginning around 1970,... Read More