Maria Popova

Twenty-five years ago, beloved comic artist and editor Art Spiegelman published Maus, his Pulitzer-winning classic about the Holocaust More »

Green-light mess-making, astonish yourself in 101 different ways, unleash your inner graffiti artist, and flowchart your way to happiness More »

D.W. Kellogg's design, which was created around 1833, depicts Woman as a sentimental, selfish, and superficial being driven by vanity More »

Swedish design duo Hjarta Smarta started Hall of Femmes as an online project after observing that weren't enough female design role models More »

Follow the Jeopardy! star as he gets shamed by a teenager at the National Geographic Bee and lost in the Library of Congress Map Division More »

A new translation of the Grimm tales includes artwork from some of the most celebrated illustrators working between 1820 and 1950 More »

Kleon is known for his Newspaper Blackout project, in which he makes art out of articles by redacting with little more than a black Sharpie More »

This excerpt from 'Lessons for the Living' shows Kathleen, both a hospice volunteer and hospice patient, as she prepares for her own death More »

How eBay helped to uncover a buried literary treasure, or what a Massachusetts dentist and Seussologist has to do with vintage magazines More »

Part of what makes the children's books on this list so great is their ability to whisk the young reader into an alternate reality full of possibility More »

That idea, central to the Lucretian worldview, has, in time, found its way to everything from design to literature to political strategy More »

Animators Felix Meyer, Pascal Monaco, and Torsten Strer explore what makes one of our most iconic filmmakers's projects so stunning More »

An incredible handmade book based on Indian mythology, I Like Cats features a different cat on every rich, textured, screen-printed page More »

The Kew Royal Botanical Gardens has been storing seeds as an 'insurance policy' against the extinction of plants in the wild More »

Sophie Blackall, known for her distinctive kid's book illustrations, found inspiration on the digital pages of Craigslist for her newest work More »

This collection explores how the political beliefs of famous mid-century American authors shaped their cherished stories and poems More »

Cornell is often considered the first and greatest American surrealist, said to have influence creators as diverse as Duchamp and Gibson More »

Crafted by local artisans in their fair trade shop in Chennai, products of Tara Books are printed by hand using traditional Indian dyes More »

After her parents were murdered, Forouhar channeled her grief into art that pulls you in with equal parts urgency and mesmerism More »

These covers offer beautiful depictions of life, from the mundane to the monumental, with vignettes from the daily grind to major events More »