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In the middle of the 1840s, Henry David Thoreau spent some time in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, on land owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, his friend and mentor. This is where Thoreau wrote his first book, A Week on…
What would happen if you reimagined all of your favorite pop songs as sonnets? If you’re thinking about that now, just stop: it’s already been done. We’re late to the party: Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs (Quirk Books) was…
Botanical artists are a breed apart. They itch to record that which exists in the natural world. Botanical Sketchbooks (Princeton Architectural Press) by Helen and William Bynum captures both the art and the sentiment that have driven it through the ages quite…
Thinking about throwing out that old typewriter? Think again. Long a topic of careful and considered industrial design, collectors are getting wind of the fact that the seemingly obsolete typewriter is a thing of collectible beauty. From Christie’s blog: The museum community…
From the outset, the premise captivates. Where once women might have been judged by the turn of an ankle or the shape of a cheek, we live in time when what is attractive can have a deeper meaning. And while there are…
It’s inevitable, really. Every 007 movie brings forth new books about the Bond phenomenon. Some are updated versions of older books, some are new. But they appear as part of the vast Bond marketing machine that hasn’t stopped since the early 1960s….
The walking dead have had more than their share of attention over the past few years. But what about the newly dead? Hardly anyone cares about them at all. And that’s a concern because, according Domencik Dicce’s You’re a Vampire: That Sucks!…
Whatever picture you are building in your mind about Evolution: The Whole Story (Firefly), rebuild it. This book is bigger, more complete, denser of thought and material and more brilliantly illustrated than anything you are imagining. As the title promises, this <i>is</i>…
We’re not feeling a review of this one. We will give you facts. You must make up your own mind. Pop Sonnets: Shakespearean Spins on Your Favorite Songs by Erik Didriksen will either grab you. Or it will not. From the flap…
Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings from 1886 to 1959. Thomas Heatherwick established his design studio in London in 1984 and is still working. The two could not be more different, except in my mind there are key similarities. Both men changed…