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 »

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 »

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 »

“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 »

Today we publish The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip’s look at the life of design impresario, futurist, and jack-of-many-trades Norman Bel Geddes. By the time of Bel Geddes’s death in… Read more »

Next month, we’re excited to be publishing The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip’s look at the life of design impresario, futurist, and jack-of-many-trades Norman Bel Geddes. By the time of… Read more »