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Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books
By Nina Freudenberger
What to give the book-lover in your life? A beautifully photographed coffee table book of curated personal libraries that will make you swoon, and encourage both a little home re-decor and make you long to settle in with a good book. With glimpses into the private homes of such writers as Brooklyn’s Emma Straub and Gay and Nan Talese, it is a perfect blend of the inspirational and the aspirational for the passionate reader.
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Bill Cunningham: On the Street
By New York Times
The first-ever published collection of Bill Cunningham’s style and fashion photography is a treat for fans of his column in the New York Times. This book is absolutely stunning in every way! Incredible looks fill each page. This book shows why New York is a special place to live and perfect for any lover of style in the city.
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By Kassia St. Clair
Wow. You’ll have a whole new appreciation for your bedspread. A thorough and captivating account of textile history written in graceful prose, and filled with new inquiry and insight into early production practices and the ingenuity of craftsmen. For material culture enthusiasts and history buffs alike. They’ll be ever-grateful to Kassia St. Clair for granting them the opportunity to geek out over the creation of space suits for the Apollo mission!
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Libraries
By Candida Höfer
Libraries is a photo book of Candida Höfer’s images of the world’s libraries. Spanning decades and continents, Höfer’s photos show the different forms and faces of what a library is, and evoke a profound nostalgia when we remember their magic. It also features an essay by Umberto Eco, one of Italy’s late great authors and thinkers. Perfect for any book lover’s coffee table!
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Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings
By Joni Mitchell
If you know any Joni Mitchell fans with space for this book in their home, this is the perfect holiday gift. An intimate journey through a small part of her long career, Joni kept a notebook of lyrics and drawings throughout the early 1970s, beautifully reproduced here. Any fan of her music should jump at the opportunity to know the artist in this way.
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Out Loud
By Mark Morris
Dive into the mind of one of the most prolific visionaries of our time. Out Loud offers unique insight into the experiences and processes that have informed Mark Morris’ world renowned choreography as well as the history of modern dance itself. One of the best things about this book is that we see how much of a musician Mark is, and how important live music is to his productions and choreography. Great for fans of theater and dance!
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Out There
A much-anticipated memoir from Salman Rushdie leads the selection this week. Two others are story collections that bust their genres -
From One Extreme to Another
This week we have novels brimming with hilarity and heartbreak, farce and catastrophe. Each extreme is hard to pull off, but... -
Fountain of Youth
Several selections this week feature young protagonists as we explore past and present: in a Polish Gothic novel; with a closeted... -
The Heart’s Desire
This week we cover stories about family, love, and characters who are haunted by their pasts and potential futures -
Arts & Letters
In this week’s selection we recommend a stunning debut from a veritable polymath; two books about ’80s artists in Soho—a... -
Crimes and Passion
Though we get an extra day this month (thanks to the leap year), folklore suggests February 29th is bad luck -
Life Stories
This week we dig deep into lives real and imagined, past and present: three memoirs, one in verse; a posthumous essay collection... -
Hearts and Flowers?
This Valentine’s issue of our newsletter presents two books about love in its various iterations, both happy and sad, always complicated -
Out of the Shadows
If the groundhog’s prediction is to be believed, we can look forward to an early spring, but in the meantime, there are... -
Thrilling
These five novels are all suspenseful in their own ways—not just because there are three gripping crime stories (including... -
Mind Over Matter
Books that are informed by the cultures of Iran, Vietnam, Denmark, and Ukraine will take you to faraway places this week, and... -
Varieties of Exile
Several disparate yet extraordinary voices this week are linked by themes of heritage and displacement—from North Africa to... -
Women's Intuition
A selection of five new novels with page-turning plots by women start off our reading in the new year. Here we have a novelist... -
The Literarians: 2023 Selections
Featuring titles by Abdulrazak Gurnah, Tess Gunty, Percival Everett, Salman Rushdie, Rebecca Makkai, Eleanor Catton, Alba de... -
Joy to the World
This roundup of our 25 bestselling books from 2023 can act as a last-minute holiday gift guide for your family and friends—or... -
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
This week bookseller extraordinaire Leah Bronstein guest-edits the newsletter to share some of her favorite books for young readers from 2023 -
May We Recommend...
My esteemed colleagues at The Center for Fiction are avid and passionate readers. In the Bookstore we get to recommend titles... -
Cultural Concoctions
Here is a selection of work from writers around the world that reminds us, as Virginia Woolf wrote, “Literature is open to everybody -
Cooking Up a Storm
The holiday season is often a time for gathering in the kitchen or entertaining friends and family. This week we have a roundup... -
Late Editions
As we approach the holiday season, there are some stellar books still to come. This week, two novels tackle a group effort to save the world