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10 Awesome and Inappropriate Books for Kids
Curious Pages is a blog that scans and posts strange and wonderful children’s books that time forgot. Browsing through its archive, we were reminded of just how weird kids’ books could be — in a good...
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A Is for Anarchy: ABC Books for Hipster Spawn
Forget about Baby Mozart, it’s time for Baby Angus Young. Does that send a shiver of revulsion or a twinge of delight down your spine? If it’s the latter, then you may be the target audience for...
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Collect ‘Em All: 6 Paperback Series Worth Fetishizing
We’ve been taught it’s wrong to judge a book by its cover. But surely we can all agree that it’s OK to covet a book for its cover? Or, better yet, to drool over a series of colorful spines? The recent...
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Malcolm Venville’s Lucha Libre Portraits
Lucha Loco collects Malcolm Venville‘s stunning portraits of luchadores, the masked fighters of the Lucha Libre wrestling circuit. Their elaborate outfits and masks range from the kind-of-intimidating...
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Photo Gallery: Hair’em Scare’em
Lady Gaga isn’t the only one experimenting with fringes of hair design. Hair’em Scare’em is a gorgeous new book that explores hair as a trend in contemporary art, graphic design, illustration, interior...
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Examining Books with the Caustic Cover Critic
On his blog the Caustic Cover Critic, James Morrison tracks down, posts, and comments on beautiful and bizarre book cover design — from current titles to finds from years past. We caught up with him to...
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The Evolution of Travel Ads
A new book from Taschen, 20th Century Travel: 100 Years Of Globe-Trotting Ads, looks back at travel advertisements of the 20th century. If you’re heading somewhere this somewhere (but more especially...
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What’s Special About These Crazy Bikes?
Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design is a lovely new book from German publisher Gestalten. It’s chock full of glossy images of all sorts of amazing bikes, artwork inspired by bikes, and shots of the people...
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Assigned Reading: The Ultimate World Cup Reading List
While the hype for this Saturday’s USA v. England match may be at a rolling boil, relatively speaking, soccer isn’t exactly in America’s DNA. If you just want to know who’s who in the World Cup, you...
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The Greatest Not-Fit-for-TV Sports
For his new book The Renegade Sportsman, Zach Dundas spent years seeking out and chronicling fringe sports, from Bike Polo to the Cresta Run. The result is a fascinating read that explores the many...
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