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THE BURIED by Peter Hessler Wins First Annual Peter Mackenzie Smith Book Prize

Awarded for improving understanding of the history, economy, culture, arts, music, literature, religions, beliefs and practices of Egypt.

Jake Adelstein’s TOKYO VICE series launches on HBO Max

After a long and winding road, the adaptation of the bestselling memoir is here, directed by Michael Mann and scripted by JT Rogers.

Dirty Picture: A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. Doherty, a senior editor at Reason magazine and author of This Is Burning Man, serves up a tale of underground comix, “the ‘x’ to mark them as distinct from the mainstream comics to which they were in opposition.” Perhaps the best known of their creators is cartoonist R. Crumb, who, despite what today are considered “problematic” depictions of gender and race, has evolved into an artist taken seriously enough to exhibit at major museums. Doherty’s pioneering players share the idea that just as music and film were breaking free of conventions in the countercultural era of the 1960s, so comix, “born of smartass rebel kids,” could become revolutionary vehicles for the mores and attitudes of the day. A major difference was that music and film had big corporations behind them, while comix were largely homegrown, underfunded affairs. Crumb, through the pages of Zap! and other seat-of-the-pants magazines, became internationally famous. So did Art Spiegelman, who early on “realized he could not make himself draw something he wasn’t intellectually or emotionally drawn to for the rest of his life” and who began to imagine a Holocaust-era tale of cats and mice half a century ago, well beforeMaus brought him to mainstream attention. Doherty pokes into every corner of the scene, recounting how the always entrepreneurial Stan Lee tried to co-opt it with a Marvel sort-of-comix book and noting that where only a few male artists are remembered today, plenty of women such as Trina Robbins made great art and deserve more attention. While the author closes with a grim recitation of artists and publishers who fell victim to drugs, alcohol, or the various ailments of old age, he observes that comix exert cultural influence today. Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors by Brian Doherty

Kirkus Reviews DIRTY PICTURES by Brian Doherty

“A free-wheeling, frank account of the rise and fall of the underground comic scene. …Lively, well researched, and full of telling anecdotes; just the thing for comix aficionados and collectors.”

MORE IS MORE IS MORE: Today’s Maximalist Interiors by Carl Dellatore (Rizzoli) to publish September 13, 2022

“You’ll be hard pressed to find more jubilance between two pieces of clothbound cardboard, or anywhere else for that matter.”

The Wall Street Journal reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…ostensibly a memoir about an oddball canine romance. Its deeper subject, though, is the romance of cities, particularly New York…”

CBS News features WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

Martha and the book were the subject of segments on CBS Sunday Morning and CBS This Morning

WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner is an instant New York Times Bestseller

The book debuts at number 11 on the Print Hardcover Nonfiction list and number 10 on the Combined Print & E-Book list of February 21, 2021

The Washington Post reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…we all have the capacity to create and build new friendships and attachments at whatever age or stage of life.”

Louise Penny Praises WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE by Martha Teichner (Celadon, February 2021)

“This is a love story, masterful, warm and funny, heartfelt and heartbreaking. I absolutely loved this book.”

Wall Street Journal Reviews ANNI AND JOSEF ALBERS: Equal and Unequal by Nicholas Fox Weber

“With its staggering array of photos and reproductions, this is a book meant to be browsed and savored rather than read straight through.”

Booklist reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“…anyone will find much to savor here—love of dogs not even required.”

The Magazine Antiques Reviews THE LOUVRE by James Gardner

“…retells and retraces the evolution of one of the world’s most complex architectural palimpsests with elegance, economy, and wit.”

Booklist Reviews HITCHCOCK BLONDE: A Cinematic Memoir by Sharon Dolin

“Dolin’s use of Hitchcock to exorcise past demons is an inspired mélange of cinematic critique and private confession.”

Kirkus Reviews WHEN HARRY MET MINNIE: A True Story of Love and Friendship by Martha Teichner

“A heartwarming and heartbreaking story of friendship and grief.”

Jazz Journal reviews STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friedwald

“…a valuable and immensely enjoyable addition to the library of all who are interested in jazz and popular song of the mid-twentieth century…”

Adam Gopnik Reviews THE LOUVRE by James Gardner in The New Yorker

“Gardner’s muscular, impatiently expert prose recalls Robert Hughes in his city books, ‘Barcelona’ and ‘Rome.'”

Wall Street Journal Reviews THE LOUVRE by James Gardner

“This history is told with all the great verve, insight and eye for detail that Mr. Gardner’s criticism is noted for.”

BookPage says ARTCURIOUS by Jennifer Dasal is “like a juicy novel”

“Dasal writes with humor and honesty, offering truth mixed with speculation…”

Kirkus Calls STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friedwald “Effusive”

“An effusive celebration of a multitalented performer.”

Terry Teachout Reviews STRAIGHTEN UP AND FLY RIGHT: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole by Will Friedwald in the Wall Street Journal

“…the last word about Nat King Cole for many years to come.”

Booklist Gives a Starred Review to OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler

“Hessler shares the words of his students—variously curious, skeptical, tired, and wise—in what is, at heart, a meditation on teaching and learning from one’s students.”

In its starred review, Publishers Weekly calls OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler: “… an enthralling take on China’s remarkable progress and its downside”

“…an expansive panorama of China, from poignant descriptions of the depopulation of the Fuling countryside brought about by China’s rapid industrialization to the grim worldview promulgated at his daughters’ school.”

Pamela Druckerman calls OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler “wryly observed, deeply empathetic”

“This is journalism at its most humane, and (especially for those of us who aren’t Sinologists) a perfect primer on what China is really like.”

Philip Gourevitch calls OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler “fascinating and engrossing”

“…an extraordinary work of foreign correspondence and memoir, drawn from a quarter century of direct and intimate observation.”

James Fallows praises OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler

“The hardest and most important challenge in writing about China is conveying the vivid individuality of the people who make it up. Peter Hessler does this wonderfully again.”

Kirkus reviews OTHER RIVERS by Peter Hessler: “…a valuable light on the reality of life in today’s China”

“Beyond the headlines of strategic rivalry and military confrontation with China are countless stories of real people trying to live in a complex country …he tells their stories with empathy and affection.”

THE LAST YAKUZA: A Life in the Japanese Underworld by Jake Adelstein

The Daily Telegraph (UK) gives four stars to THE LAST YAKUZA by Jake Adelstein

“…one still comes away from The Last Yakuza finding its subject not just sympathetic, but even lovable.”

THE LAST YAKUZA: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld by Jake Adelstein

Publishers Weekly Calls THE LAST YAKUZA by Jake Adelstein “painstakingly reported and paced like a thriller”

“Painstakingly reported and paced like a thriller, this is a must-read for anyone interested in organized crime.”

Own this! How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a Democratic Internet by Trebor Scholz

Juliet Schor Praises OWN THIS! by R. Trebor Scholz

“…the essential, brilliant, accessible guide to this rapidly growing movement. If you are interested in work, technology, climate or the future of humanity-read this book.”

Rob Verchick Selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute 2023-2024 Fellow

On May 5th, Rob Verchick was named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects contend with the urgent, the beautiful, and the vast: from reckoning with the challenges of climate change to creating digital models of iconic Italian violins to detecting distant galaxies.

Financial Times Reviews THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick

“His book tackles one of the most fraught climate policy questions: what should be done to adapt to a world facing growing evidence of climate stress?”

John M. Barry praises THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick as a “tour and a tour-de-force on the subject”

“Rob Verchick has given us both a tour of and a tour de force on the subject. Ranging from comparative anatomy to anthropology, history, philosophy, engineering, and politics, this is a fascinating, provocative—and important—book.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse praises THE OCTOPUS IN THE PARKING GARAGE by Rob Verchick “a smart roadmap for planning for the future on a changing planet.”

“Rob Verchick has created a smart roadmap for planning for the future on a changing planet.”