Spring’s page-turners range from the real king of pop to the real king of the tennis courts, with some dinosaurs and sizzling meat in-between. 1. “Anyone Who Had a Heart” (Harper), by Burt Bacharach with Robert Greenfield. The memoir of … Read More
A dozen (!) new magazines focus their pen knives on our new culinary culture. We loved New York magazine’s “Grub Street” piece recently, which is why we’re reprinting it here. Who’d have thought that the gastronauts had finally landed their … Read More
‘The Boudoir Bible’ guides you through the ‘Genital Gym’ and other bedtime activities, post V-Day and onward. Rizzoli enters the steamy world of Taschen with its new illustrated sex-guide book, The Boudoir Bible, by Betony Vernon, illustrated by François Berthoud, … Read More
If you found Sandy an androgynously benign name for a hurricane (until it proved horribly apt along the East Coast beaches, in particular), here’s some common words given new meanings by readers of The Washington Post, all of which make … Read More
New photo tome on the history of that classic American luxury auto comes in limited edition black rubber slipcase. Vah-vah-vah-voom! Here’s what publishers Assouline has to say about it: “In celebration of 110 years of one of the most iconic … Read More
Room 100’s book-of-the-month club pick. Phaidon’s spectacular new photo-coffee table book ‘The Art Book’ features 600 works of art, photographed distinctly. The obvious will stop being so when you roll through history here. It’s the autumn tome to slap down … Read More
A new non-fiction thriller on the plight of Sea World’s performing orcas will make you want to stay out of the water parks. Our fish tale pick of late summer’s beach reads. Author David Kirby’s “Death at Sea World” (St. … Read More
BlackBook anoints top 5 places to get your ’50 Shades of Grey’ on. New York’s chaste, not a go-go, compared to the Midwest and its love of “that book.” But BlackBook magazine and its always-clever website have picked some “creative” … Read More
A special collector’s edition homage’s the satire classic. “Totally MAD: 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity” –with a foreword by Stephen Colbert and Eric Drysdale—is coming to newsstands here and there, and includes “The Soul of MAD,” a … Read More
This summer get the really un-real deal: the re-issues of vampire chronicler (and closeted BD/SM scribe) Anne Rice’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ trilogy, and dig out those horse-bits, carrots, and apples, people! Did we say, “NOW, Pony-Girl?” You’d think it was the … Read More
This summer, be the brains on the beach and now thine marine life up close and icky-amazing, with this gee-wiz evolutionary tale of horseshoe ‘arthropods’ and (not-so) velvet worms of the sea. In Richard Fortey’s Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms, … Read More
Two visually stunning, escapist coffee table books exhibit the worlds of two artistic geniuses. For your oh-so-correct beach house this summer, pick up “Houses of the Sundown Sea: The Architectural Vision of Harry Gesner” (Abrams), by Lisa Germany, and “Silent … Read More
She died 50 years ago, but Marilyn Monroe remains wildly alive and kicking in pop iconography. Now with Taschen’s new limited-edition monograph, Norman Mailer, Bert Stern: Marilyn Monroe, never-before seen photographs of Hollywood’s most tragic and enigmatic kid-in-the-picture keeps teasing … Read More
A photo-excerpt revisiting the belles (and beaux) of the greatest 20th century balls, and why costuming was critical to putting your best face forward in those good old days. Nicholas Foulkes’ Bals, a coffee table-crunching tome landing in time for … Read More
A trio of tomes defying our wimpy times land with a big, bad-ass bang from three visual giants who occupied Manhattan when it was the great and powerful Gotham. Bow to, and unbind them. Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson and Martin … Read More
