Ring Mistresses
The Ladies of Hampden star in a sizzling pair of calendars all their own this year, and each book is a theatrical spectacle to...
To T or Not to T
On book tour this summer, I found myself saying in a Q&A in Chicago that yes, I was very much like graduate student Silas...
Think Globally
What better gift for your loved ones, whether family or friends, than putting the world in their hands? Here are eight fabulous gift books...
Block Party
Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, artist Heather O’Hara came to know the natural world intimately. Though she went on to earn an MFA at...
Monkey Business
The Christmas Monkey
By Geoff Becker
It arrived, somehow, while everyone was asleep. In the morning there it was, waiting: a real, wide-eyed monkey. It came...
Rounders
In Memoriam
“This wreath symbolizes the cycles of life, death and rebirth,” artist Chip Irvine says. “Working with these concepts in mind, I used...
Special Delivery
Two years ago, Tim Amukele fielded a curious proposal from a medical student referred to him by a colleague. At the time, Amukele—a pathologist,...
Cake Walk
One night, deep in the throes of a cold, I did a rare and dangerous thing: I turned off my phone, took some medicine...
Into the Mystic
Study a Susan Waters-Eller drawing or painting long enough, and a kind of pleasant disorientation takes over, with galaxies, universes and cosmos—both psychic and...
A Side of Dressing
Fashion is drama. It’s comedy. It’s story. That’s why I love it. It isn’t just about looking good (although that counts); rather, it’s about...