Delicious smallish-format book on Craxtons' drawings, sketches and paintings of cats, or those in which they frisk, entangled in chair legs, observant in trees, stretching for fish in a tave... read more
The rise to prominence of the big auction houses in an explosive market: the former chairman of Sotheby's UK holds the cards and lays out a wonderful cast of kings, queens and knaves.
In October 1960, James Baldwin diagnosed the trouble with American society as 'a failure of the masculine sensibility.' This is a study of the relationship of Tennessee Williams, Carson McCu... read more
An exceptional examination of the ways to fight global warming, by a professor of earth science at Stanford University, sharp enough to dispel the paralysis of climate apathy.