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A Graphic History of Postal Stamp Design
Typically measuring no larger than one square-inch, postage stamps may not serve as the most welcoming canvases for creative expression, but countless have carried beautiful and ingenious designs.
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Reader’s Diary: Rana Dasgupta’s ‘Capital’
My all-too-brief visit to Delhi last year ignited in me a desire to learn about the history of India.
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Killed By the State
A few weeks ago, while I was reading In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, edited by Reginald Shepherd and Philip Clark, I was reminded of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011), edited by David Trinidad. This happens with poetry – one poem or book leads to another, l
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Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s 'Come In Alone'
The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.
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The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
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A Photographer's Two-Year Journey to Document Sacred Cows
There's a beauty in the bovine's domesticated body that inspired Daniel Naudé to spend two years taking portraits of cows.
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A Comics Report on the Horrors of the Global Garment Industry
A heavily footnoted, absolutely depressing but crucial comics series reported by award-winning writer Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by artist collective Ladydrawers explores how our apparel purchases affect its majority-women workforce.
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On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
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Remixing the Resistant Voices of Black Musical Performance in the US
It’s easy to forget what an oddly heterogeneous and restless book is W.E.B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.
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The Art Deco Lighter, from Smoking's Era of Toxic Glamor
The Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s pervaded design, from the Chrysler Building in Manhattan to the Grand Rex in Paris, but it wasn't always on such a large scale.
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Reader’s Diary: Henry Miller's ‘The Colossus of Maroussi’
At some point in my teens I read a number of books by Henry Miller — though not as many as I read, at around the same time, by Hermann Hesse, despite the fact that Hesse’s books, in contrast to Miller’s, were not reputed to convey much information about sex.
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Sick of Being Human, a Designer Transformed Himself into a Goat
What if you could escape the pains of daily existence by transforming into a goat?