BOOK CRITIC
Book Critic: "Lucha Loco"
- The world of masked Mexican wrestlers is not an area that necessarily needed delving in to, but then again, how many of those books on your shelves an...
01/28/10 - 46 comments
Book Critic: "The Velvet Underground"
- Not many bands are as intimately and directly tied to their graphics, stage performances, and visual presences as the Velvet Underground. David Bowie ...
10/23/09 - 40 comments
Book Critic: "Glow In the Dark"
- We all remember Kanye West's "Glow In the Dark" tour for a couple incidental reasons that we should vanquish from our collective memory: firstly, it w...
10/13/09 - 38 comments
Book Critic: "Hanatsubaki and Nakajo"
- We all well know the Japanese cosmetics brand Shiseido. Founded in 1872, it is officially the oldest cosmetics company in the world. How much bigger a...
09/15/09 - 47 comments
Book Critic: Jonathan Littell's "The Kindly Ones"
- In its short life, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones has caused some controversy, to put it mildly. Critically lauded when first released in Europ...
05/15/09 - 0 comments
"Eve Arnold's People"
- It doesn't take a whole lot to be a good photographer. Maybe you have a solid college education or a master teacher or a good stash of equipment. It t...
04/27/09 - 13 comments
Book Critic: "Corporate Diversity"
- Chemical companies tend to be rather boring entities. They remind us of high school courses, confusing equations, sterile work environments, and envir...
04/22/09 - 152 comments
Book Critic: "Made in Cassina"
- If Cassina, one of the world's most innovative―and colossal―modern furniture companies, ain't ringing any bells, then we've a question for you: Wh...
04/08/09 - 0 comments
Cheever Mania: A Review of Recent Books On and By the Literary Icon
- Shortly after John Updike died the New York Times, posted a video of he and John Cheever on The Dick Cavett Show in 1981. I told my friend, a huge Upd...
04/01/09 - 3 comments
Book Critic: "The Stephen Sprouse Book"
- If you were to label Stephen Sprouse an anomaly within the fashion world, you would be pretty much spot on. Dubbed a wunderkind of design in his nativ...
02/23/09 - 22 comments
