As an avid reader of art books, I’m especially excited to dive into these titles—they promise to inspire, challenge and deepen our understanding of art and its enduring impact. Whether you ...

Her 2006 graphic memoir, Fun Home, deftly delineates the contours of art from the stuff of life — layered literary and pop culture allusions are as much visceral as cerebral. She reads ...

A lavishly illustrated book exploring the full multi-disciplinary ... history and the post-colonial politics of Black identity. Art in a State of Siege, Joseph Leo Koerner, Princeton University ...

These steamy reads bring the emotion and the heat. By Ali Hazelwood The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the ...

Ray Johnson (1927–1995), aka “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” was notorious for the elaborate games he played with art world institutions ... In A Book about Ray, Ellen Levy ...

Jan 29, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Erin L ... In his films, his TV shows, and his paintings, Lynch reminded us that all art gestures toward a world beyond the familiar and comforting.

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. As spooky season approaches, the master of ...

The latest book in the phenomenally popular romance-fantasy Empyrean Series finds Violet Sorrengail leaving Basgiath War College, where she’s been studying to be a dragon rider, and venturing ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Here’s how it works. Seeing as the game is now over 50 years old, it's hard to narrow down the best D&D books. There are quite literally enough to fill a small library these days, so which ones ...

A Century of Modern Art traces the birth of modern painting, beginning with the Impressionists in the 1860s, and follows its evolution through key movements such as Post Impressionism, Symbolism, ...