Books
Robert Moses's Two-Faced Legacy Gets the Comic Book Treatment
Robert Moses was never elected to a major office in New York City, but he completely altered the topography of the metropolis through three decades of construction projects.
Books
News
8,000 Books and Manuscripts Lost After ISIS Bombs Mosul Library
On Sunday night, more than 8,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed after ISIS militants bombed Mosul's Central Library.
Books
Mapplethorpe's Other Man
In Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe, Philip Gefter’s new biography of collector, curator, and market force Sam Wagstaff, the author argues that it was not only his subject’s life that was transformed by his relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe.
Books
A Comic Book that Reads Like Sheet Music
Richard Kraft's Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera explodes off the page.
Books
The Massive Men of Homoerotic Manga
Amidst the magical girls and sentient robots that dominate the Japanese graphic novels and comics known as manga, pockets of intrigue and eroticism lie.
Books
Endless Enemies: Photographing Military Training Targets around the World
A 30-year-old memory of a metal figure riddled with bullet holes, standing in the furrows of a German field, finally persuaded photographer Herlinde Koelbl to investigate what military training targets look like around the world.
Books
A Contemporary Codex Teaches Children About Migration
Migrant appropriates the vertical, accordion-bound form of a pre-Colombian codex to tell of a Central American family’s freight train journey to the United States.
Books
Tales of Japanese Spirits Give Form to Our Deepest Fears
Have you ever had a supernatural experience, a moment unexplained by reason or logic that left you feeling as if a mysterious force was present?
Books
The Troubled, Creative Lives of Almost Famous Women
Megan Mayhew Bergman’s short-story collection Almost Famous Women, I admit, would have caught my attention simply by its title, as I have an insatiable fascination with eccentric women in history.
Books
A Portal to Unite the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection
This month the Smithsonian Libraries Artists' Books Collection launched an online platform that unifies artists' books from across several Smithsonian collections.
Books
Lamenting the Demise of the Culture Class, Again
I can't remember being so deeply frustrated by a book that I assumed I would like and find informative.
Books
A Book that Judges You by Your Cover
We’re used to judging books by their covers — but perhaps we’d think twice about our premature judgments if books judged us back.