Yoshitake Shinsuke is one of Japan’s best-loved picture book creators. A traveling show featuring his art returns to Tokyo ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Amity Gaige’s thriller was inspired by a real-life tragedy along the Appalachian Trail.

Most video game art books follow a certain template: Load up on concept art, show how the game evolved during production, add some commentary to connect the dots. Some lean more heavily on a studio’s ...

Missing for decades from the Anglophile version of its origin story was another great visual narrative tradition, of the East ...

The experimental artist, known for his work with David Bowie, Roxy Music, and Coldplay, released a new book on the purpose art serves in our lives.

Natalie Lawrence uncovers fascinating other-worldly natural history, creatures that embody our anxieties and our irrational ...

Echo On Publications announced that Carpenter’s film would receive an official novelization, written by none other than Sutter Cane himself! “In the Mouth of Madn ...

of the mind’s role in determining physical limits. But my other lasting impression was of the stark delineation between success and failure, and the importance that runners and spectators alike ...

Prepare to rethink ancient myths, explore the depths of the human mind and do more in these new books by Anders Nilsen, María ...

A 70-year-old woman, her great-nephew, and a mysterious pair of armchairs take an action-filled trip to Paris in the graphic novel murder mystery Gilt Frame (Dark Horse, Mar.), the first-ever ...

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