British filmmaker, photographer, and magazine founder Rankin opens his vast archives to reflect on some of the best musician portraits from his three-decade career. "Play" is... Read More

Fredrik Granath and Melissa Schäfer spend months each year documenting wildlife in Norway’s Svalbard region, a “ground zero of global warming” Arctic environment that... Read More

Late in the evening, Sangiovese teasing your palate, do you ever wonder how grape farming and winemaking emerged from a lineage of humble agriculture to become the modern,... Read More

Darker moments balance the portrait of a place marked as much by seasonal change as by its irresistible mythology and history. Gardener-in-chief Alain Baraton reveals the Palace... Read More

Contrasts between solitude and companionship acquaint readers with the rich relationship between humans, their environment, and their selves. For an intentional hermit,... Read More

How to Read Churches is a pocket-sized guide for neophytes that’s convenient enough to tote while touring featured buildings ranging from Boston’s Old North Church to... Read More

In his disturbingly perceptive poem, “Musée des Beaux Arts,” W.H. Auden delineated the perpetual disconnect that exists between the comfortable, workaday world and the... Read More

Umberto Eco is a world renowned medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, literary critic, and currently the president of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of... Read More

In New Jersey, where the Turnpike vertically dissects the state, one asks “Which exit?” to pinpoint where someone lives; in Italy, knowing if one puts raisins or pignoli... Read More

‘Vogue (vōg)… The mode of fashion prevalent at any particular time’; […] It was just the name needed to identify their social gazette. None of them could imagine, in... Read More

A coffee table-sized shrine dedicated to the memory and glamour of actress Greta Garbo, this splendid collection of her portraits re-introduces a strikingly beautiful woman on... Read More

As treasured keepsakes and fine works of craftsmanship, silhouettes played a significant role in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century life. In Silhouettes, Emma Rutherford... Read More