'The Little Red Hen': Andy Warhol's Pre-Pop 1958 Children's Illustration
Part of the "Best of Children's Books #15," this story came together when Warhol was making a living as one of Doubleday's freelance artists More »
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Maria Popova is the editor of Brain Pickings. She writes for Wired UK and GOOD, and is an MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow.
Part of the "Best of Children's Books #15," this story came together when Warhol was making a living as one of Doubleday's freelance artists More »
From stunning stingrays to jubilant jellyfish, Laita, known for his Created Equal series, captures a fascinating and mysterious world More »
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In his latest book, Harold Bloom attempts to peel away the layers of a complex ecosystem and help us to better understand remix culture More »
For generations, the women of the Meena tribe in India's Rajasthan state have been decorating the walls of their homes with Mandana painting More »
After spending years sifting through the author's correspondence, Sandra Spanier curated this, just the first in what will be at least 16 volumes More »
A stunning new volume from Taschen collects 650 magnificent images, including some shot by Stanley Kubrick and Charles Eames More »
Andrew Zuckerman, Adam Bly, Hans-Ultirch Obrist, Steven Johnson, and others take us inside some of the great minds of our era More »
Former high school English teacher Matt Kish believes that Melville's classic "is a book about everything. God. Love. Hate. Identity. Race." More »
While heading up the animation department at the Handy (Jam) Organization, Fleischer made a series of humorous news sketches More »
For three years, Mollison travelled across the U.S. and Europe with a mobile photography studio, which he parked in front of concerts More »
Before the fall of the communist regime, we waited in line for hours to buy bananas -- lines I didn't see again until the iPhone was released More »
The evolutionary biologist and celebrated atheist offers up a powerful antidote to the creationism mythology for younger readers More »
This month marks the reprint of 'I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History,' an anthology of Gould's essays More »
Scientists, artists, presidents -- they're all here, presented as antique hipsters, in New Yorker cartoonist Kate Beaton's collection of comics More »
Bob Willoughby's photographs from the 1950s and early '60s of the legendary actress have been collected in a lavish release by Taschen More »
From marmalade flapjacks to toad-in-the-hole, this book covers a wide variety of recipes, and a partner site allows you to submit your own More »
One part of the legendary design duo, Charles and Ray Eames, sat down in 1972 with a representative of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris for this still-relevant interview More »
