Gift Books 2015 Our Pick of the Best
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2015. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science, history or memoir, […]
Category Archives: Travel
Gift Books 2015: Questing/Adventure/Travel
THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Andrea Wulf. (Alfred A. Knopf) 473 pp Illustrated. Alfred A. Knopf. $30. Is there a way to summarize the prodigious talents […]
Gift Books 2015: Photography There’s More!
UPDATE: We’ve added four great photography books to the 2015 Holiday wish list we posted recently. They all represent –in one way or another – the world that once was […]
Gift Books for 2015: Coming Next Week
Our 2015 Holiday Round-up of books — to crave, see, read, give and keep –is coming next week in four installments! Photography — from phytoplankton to Hubble Telescope images Questing […]
Gift Books Coming: More to Read Now!
Books to give — and get –for Holidays 2015. Soon we’ll be posting dozens of current and classic works on photography, design, cities, natural history, science and more. If you’re craving […]
Joel Sartore’s Photo Ark: Coming Up
Joel Sartore is a man on a mission – to photograph 12,000 species of mammals, amphibians, birds, insects and other species before they go extinct, through a project he calls […]
Cuba’s Waiting for You! Part I
There’s no single way to look at contemporary Cuban life, culture and the arts without understanding the contradictions, overlaps and influences that have existed for centuries– the powerful pull of […]
Cuba Photo Gallery: A Preview
Design Showcases and Events: Fall 2015
The fall season is on in the architecture and design world – with a slew of week- to months-long events in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, London and Eindhoven […]
Coming up: Cuba’s Arts & Cultural Scene
Today, the United States opened its embassy in Havana, overlooking the city’s Malecon – a policy move that also suggests there will be many opportunities ahead for Cuba’s artists, writers, […]
