coffee table books

Personally, when I think about libraries, I think about cozy suburban branches, or massive modern downtown libraries, rather than the opulent cathedrals of learning that have been around for hundreds…

Book clubs, for various reasons, tend to be focused on content rather than collectibility. But we live in an age when there’s a subscription service for just about everything —…

Everybody has a favorite movie, but it takes a truly cultured mind to have a favorite movie that doesn’t exist. It might be the Wachowskis‘ Plastic Man movie. It might be George A.…

Just when I thought I’d seen everything, Louise Harpman and Scott Specht have devoted a book, and possibly their entire lives, to the art of the coffee lid. The book is…

The New York Times has always purported to contain all the news that’s fit to print, and since 1973 that has included plenty of material relating to the Star Wars franchise. Now, the…

It feels like 50 years ago, but it really wasn’t so long ago that Barack Obama was president. His White House photographer Pete Souza became a well-known name for his…

The Playboy centerfold is a cultural icon dating back all the way to 1953, when the first Playmate of the Month Marilyn Monroe helped bring the magazine’s first issue to…

What have you been doing since 2005? Perhaps it’s been a nice collection of peaks of activity in the 2008-2011 period followed by a bit of personal plateaus, but famed…

One way to gauge the importance of an art’s practitioner by how well the general public, rather than followers of the art form in question, know the practitioner in day…

Some people are interested in the history of Japanese streetwear, other people just have an affinity for deluxe hardcover books. Then there are those who like both of those things…