Reads tagged with “books”

The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott: 100 Years of Polar Mystery

What ponies and glaciers have to do with London bars.

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The Natural History of Evolution, in Stunning Black-and-White Photographs of Animal Skeletons

What a flamingo, a capybara, and a guinea pig have to do with the beginnings of recorded time.

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The 11 Best Photography Books of 2011

What the world’s last living nomads have to do with Victorian strongwomen, tweed, and the unseen Beatles.

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Lovely Stop-Motion Book Trailers for Stiefvater’s Fantasy Trilogy

Cut-paper werewolves and newspaper fairies, oh my.

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The Cult of LEGO

Inside the world of 8 quadrillion possible combinations.

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Tantra Song: Rare 17th-Century Indian Paintings That Look Like 20th-Century Western Art

What a deadly bus accident has to do with Paul Klee, Paris, and the poetry of abstraction.

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Inside the Sketchbooks of the World’s Greatest Type Designers

A voyeuristic look at the underbelly of the art-science of typography.

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The Astonishing Visual Lists of Autistic Savant Gregory Blackstock

From owls to lighthouses, or what a sixty-something retired pot washer can teach us about art and love.

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The Strange Friendship of Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini

A glimpse of early-20th-century spiritualism, or how the supernatural became a conduit for the deeply human.

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The Curious Sofa: Edward Gorey’s Vintage “Porno-graphic” Children’s Book for Adults

A naughty illustrated tale of mad mid-century matinees.

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Reads tagged with “books”

What ponies and glaciers have to do with London bars.

What a flamingo, a capybara, and a guinea pig have to do with the beginnings of recorded time.

What the world’s last living nomads have to do with Victorian strongwomen, tweed, and the unseen Beatles.

Cut-paper werewolves and newspaper fairies, oh my.

Inside the world of 8 quadrillion possible combinations.

What a deadly bus accident has to do with Paul Klee, Paris, and the poetry of abstraction.

A voyeuristic look at the underbelly of the art-science of typography.

From owls to lighthouses, or what a sixty-something retired pot washer can teach us about art and love.

A glimpse of early-20th-century spiritualism, or how the supernatural became a conduit for the deeply human.

A naughty illustrated tale of mad mid-century matinees.

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