Five great long reads by our authors in 2018
One of the great thing about our writers is being able to follow their activities beyond the book. We’re always curious to see where their journalistic noses have sniffing out and we… Read more »
How ballpoint pens and a new world flight record saved us from applying deodorant by hand
The odyssey, at times hilarious, of the ballpoint pen is a window into the entrepreneurship, tenacity, keen timing, and cognizance of consumer mentality that defined the American business world at the start of… Read more »
Don’t just look at buildings — read about them, too!
This Saturday in New York City, Storefront for Art and Architecture—in partnership with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union—will be hosting the “Architecture Books / Yet to… Read more »
Best Laid Plans: Norman Bel Geddes’s Unrealized Projects
“Every new thing is resisted.” —Thomas Edison, 1914 “Think different.” —Apple ad slogan, 1997–2002 “The fairy tales of the past, told to while away an idle hour with mysterious impossibilities,… Read more »
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there were some librarians coming down along the road and these librarians that were coming down along the road met a nicens little house named Melville House
Reader, it had been a long and hard five months since we last met with the Librarians, that estimable gang of Good-protecting know-a-lot-ers and friendly faces. And so when the moment… Read more »