Books

Anthony Bourdain’s “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide”

Anthony Bourdain comes back to haunt us in the best of ways via the medium that made him famous: a book. Written by Bourdain and his faithful assistant, Laurie Woolever, it covers key insights into…

‘The Wax Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife’

There are quite a few different things we’d like to revisit from our childhood, but chief among them is our adolescent love of cracking open fresh wax packs of baseball cards. There’s just something about…

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‘The Book of Building Fires’

Millions of years ago, our earliest ancestors discovered and developed control of fire. It’s kind of what us put us on the map and allowed us to survive as a species. All these years, Boy…

Beastie Boys by Spike Jonze

If you’re a fan of the legendary Beastie Boys, this book by Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze is a must because it captures the start, rise, and heyday of Michael “Mike D”…

‘The Pulp Magazine Archive’ Has 75 Years of Pulp Magazines You Can Read for Free

There are plenty of websites that we consider indispensable. The non-profit digital library that everyone knows as the Internet Archive is most definitely one of them. Whether you’re looking through one of their 400+ billion…

Where Architects Sleep

Phaidon has published a lot of great books over the years. As impressed as we are with their entire collection of tomes, they’re not all as indispensable as their line of “Where to” books. We’re…

Watches: A Guide By Hodinkee

We remember meeting Hodinkee founder Ben Clymer when he’d recently started his horological website. Humble, passionate, and focused, he changed the face of watch journalism with his site that’s now grown to huge proportions. Hodinkee’s…

‘The Porsche Art Book’

You could string any combination of three numbers together and the odds are, if it starts with a 9, it’s also the numerical moniker of a famous Porsche automobile. The recently released Porsche Art Book is,…

‘My First Skateboard Book’

Professional American skateboarder, director and author Karl Watson was born in late 1976 and would spend a lifetime developing a laid back skate style, shoes, skateboards, parks and pretty much everything else skate culture related.…

‘Lair: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains’

If you’re anything like us, and we know you are, you’ve wanted to live in an evil villain lair ever since you saw your first Bond film. There’s just something about the great houses that…

‘Whiskey: A Tasting Course’

In the early Middle Ages, Irish monks bestowed the name of uisce beatha–literally “water of life”–to whiskey. We weren’t around back then, but we’ve had no problem treating the distilled spirit as such since then.…

Hot Wheels: From 0 to 50 at 1:64 Scale

If you’re a car guy of any permutation, whether it’s exotics, muscle cars, 4x4s, or even just mainstream sedans, you can trace some of that love of automobilia back to those $1 Hot Wheels your…

Space Is Cool as Fuck Book

We have more great coffee table books than we have surfaces to display them on, but that didn’t stop us from picking up, thumbing through and proudly putting this one out for guests because it’s…

Banksy’s Former Manager Is Releasing a Book Filled with Photos of the Artist in Action

Whether it’s opening stores to spite large brands, shredding his own works or defacing currency, everything Banksy does is talked about, newsworthy and on display. The one thing that remains a closely guarded secret is…

Arcade Game Typography: The Art of Pixel Type

Hours standing up, both pockets filled with quarters, puffer vest, ball cap, no need for sustenance. Yep, that was our life at the arcade in the ’80s. We never thought about the pixilated fonts everywhere…

‘Binging with Babish: 100 Recipes Recreated from Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows’

Whether you’re talking about the Soup Nazi’s Wild Mushroom Soup from Seinfeld, the Cubano Sandwiches from Chef or cocktails from famous movies, it’s a fair bet that Andrew Rea–aka Oliver Babish, Oliver Platt’s The West…

Jim Murray’s Best Whiskys from the 2020 ‘Whisky Bible’ Have Been Revealed

Every year, Jim Murray–an equally loved and loathed critic on the world whisky scene–unveils his list of the best whiskies in the world. It led to a bottle of Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye getting…

Monocole’s The Entrepreneur

An annual subscription to London-Based Monocle’s publications gets you some of the best writing and insights on global affairs, culture, design, business, and many other topics of interest. Now, they’re launching an annual called “The…

‘Web Design. The Evolution of the Digital World 1990–Today’

The Internet has changed a lot since the days when you needed a computer the size of a small car and a telephone line to get horrendous dial-up connections that would take minutes to load a…

‘Cocaïn: History & Culture’

Blow. Shneef. Flake. Nose beers. White. Dust. Booger sugar. Powder. Stripper salt. Pearl. Uptown. Cocaine–yes, that cocaine–has as many nicknames as it has had various uses over the years. In Assouline’s Cocaïn: History & Culture,…

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