A sultry new tome puts faces (and tushes) on the country where futebol, faith and teensy-weensy bikinis come together as a lifestyle holy trinity. Hey, blame it on Rio. Armand Limnander’s “Brazilian Style” captures a nation and a culture of … Read More
Faulkner pined for an airplane. Fitzgerald fantasized about fancy cars. And, as is evident in the new tell-all, Hemingway’s Boat, Papa wanted (and got) Pilar, his beloved fishing boat. How then did all their objects of desire act as the … Read More
The man who brought pizazz to our suit linings and perfect fit to our suits is celebrated in a refined new book by his-truly. The book to watch for in early spring is “Paul Smith,” by Paul Smith, with interviews … Read More
Volume 1 of two photo-anthologies by provocateurs Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin hits art-book stores with a 100-pound thump. A collaboration of 20 years shooting fashion, ad campaigns, editorial portraits and general madness, the duo’s Pretty Much Everything (Taschen) … Read More
‘The Savoy Cocktail Book’ and ‘The PDT Cocktail Book’ are the go-to drink recipe tomes for X-mas and onward, no! And they have pictures inside too! Remember the good ole days when cocktail books used illustrations to, well, illustrate, drinks? … Read More
Former Domino editor shows ‘how to decorate & live well’. With so-chic illustrations by Virginia Johnson, Deborah Needleman- now editor of WSJ magazine-culls all the great stuff she learned and provided as editor of the much-missed Domino magazine within the … Read More
New book chronicling 1970′s Key West tells the secret history of Margaritaville. If Key West was magical enough to inspire Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Jimmy Buffet, and Tom McGuane to move there, it should inspire you to take the 3-hour jaunt … Read More
The hot party season ticket this fall is Assouline’s coffee table remembrance of great things past, the debauched and delicious par-tays of the 20th century. There’s nearly 300 photos of how they did it right, from Art Deco Paris to … Read More
Michael Gross’s ’90s exposé on the rise and fall of the supermodel gets re-issued Remember those singularly-named stiletto-ed Amazonians (Cindy, Naomi, Claudia, Linda, Iman), Times Square’s Model Cafe (ha-ha) and that amazing, rousing, vogue-ing music-video for George Michael’s “Faith”? Remember … Read More
The Devil All the Time This new novel is proof that there is, and isn’t, a God. Written by a middle-aged Ohio man who spent 32 years working in paper mills and slaughterhouses before sitting down and trying to earn … Read More
Gary Cooper, John Wayne and Ernest Hemingway books coming for your fall reading and style. Sick of namby-pambies? This fall, book publishers are rolling out tomes–both photo and biographical–about three of the world’s most manly and iconic greats. Cooper, Wayne … Read More
It’s called The Thing, and James Franco’s Got It For its fourth installation, the new art-object d’art publication The Thingrecruited renaissance wonder-boy James Franco to create the limited-edition quarterly’s content and design. Franco had a thing for the late, unsung, … Read More
Menu Design in America: 1850-1985′ will make you hungry for the tasty graphics of other eras Containing more than a century of impossibly chic and just plain fun menus of yesteryear’s restaurants, “Menu Design in America” is a visual feast, … Read More
In a revealing new book, the controversial photographer’s famous peers pick their favorites of his captured faces William Burroughs shooting a rifle. Dennis Hopper chatting up a blonde. Patti Smith cutting her hair. And, of course, plenty of unknown male … Read More
In anticipation of the Martin Scorsese movie, take Brian Selznick’s magnificent The Invention of Hugo Cabret to the beach. The kids will love it too. The children’s book released in 2007 was a less-than-guilty pleasure of parents when it hit … Read More
