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.
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
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.
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
Catalogue of an exhibition at Château du Clos-Lucé, Amboise, which explores the scents of the period through the plants with which Leonardo was familiar with in childhood and, later, and t... read more
Still lifes from the Dresden Gemaldegalerie collection by painters from the Dutch and Flemish golden age, including Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon and Rachel Ruysch.
To accompany the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery - a gallery that the first Yoshida visited in the late 1890s. Something of a hall a of mirrors is going on here, as Yoshida, aware of t... read more
Dali's lobster telephone, Dora Maar's shell hand, Many, Ray, Magritte, Joseph Cornell, et alia: a cheerful amuse-bouche for the centenary of the outbreak of surrealism - grace à André Bret... read more
A fine illustrated book showing 51 contemporary houses across the world that have been carefully designed to integrate with their natural surroundings.
A memoir structured round mementos that takes us to Ossie & Celia, Andy, Karl, Diana, Freddie, Diana, Diana, Barbra and many other luminaries, or possibly icons.
It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandria childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestsell... read more
Europeans have north at the top of their maps; Islam looked south; the Hebrew culture looked east; the Aztecs had five points. What are compass points? How do they vary and function?
Not so much a history of maps, this is a riveting account of the ways in which the carefully plotted lines of explorers have transformed the world. From Magellan and Cook to the distortions ... read more
Balkan transhumance: in her fourth book on life in the Balkans, Kassabova lives and travels with the Karakachan, a small group of Greek-speaking nomadic pastoralists in the Pirin mountains.