Sendak’s illustrations carry weight all on their own for children and adults alike, and this book beautifully captures his prolific career.

In her novel Tell Me I’m an Artist, Chelsea Martin questions whether art offers a refuge from the world.

Stephen L. Starkman’s moving book about his encounter with mortality leaves a place for perseverance and hope.

Theatres of Melancholy: The Neo-Romantics in Paris and Beyond highlights a group of artists who found acclaim and patronage only to fall back into obscurity.

20th Century Indian Art: Modern, Post-Independence, Contemporary surveys the many distinct aspects of art in South Asia.

Within this rich survey of 1990s ephemera is an homage to the modes of communication that forged community and identity prior to the internet.

Collecting Nature: The History of the Herbarium and Natural Specimens offers a collection of collections, a satisfying glimpse into the age-old practice.

The pathbreaking artist recounts milestones in her life through letters she wrote to her mother.

Comrade Sisters centers photographs and personal accounts of the women who made up over two-thirds of the party.

Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees. 

A new book presents nearly 100 previously unseen photos from the artist’s influential, once-controversial body of work.

Buddhist Art of Tibet: In Milarepa's Footsteps is a cringe-worthy display of “spiritual colonialism.”

Our contributors picked 20 must-reads that informed and broadened their worldviews this year.

Extensively illustrated, Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911–1976 is the first book dedicated to the artist’s prolific but largely private drawing practice.

Suzanna Ivanič's new book Catholica: The Visual Culture of Catholicism is an essential primer on how Catholicism intersects with art history.

Pattern and Flow: A Golden Age of American Decorated Paper, 1960s to 2000s is a feast for the eyes.

By turns whimsical and poignant, Kalman's Women Holding Things combines two of her most consistent subjects: women and beloved objects.

Shary Boyle’s Outside the Palace of Me exhibition catalogue provides viewers with experiences that an in-person visit cannot.

An anthology of poems, fiction, and translated essays combined with images explores the role of memory and the visual.

Can photographers capture the vitality of flowers compellingly, innovatively, and beautifully? A new book gives a resounding yes.

Architect Jean Welz worked in a socially engaged style that transcended individual pursuits for glory.

Eva Hagberg’s new book sheds light on the relationship between critic and publicist Aline Louchheim and architect Eero Saarinen.

Larry Towell’s images reveal a little-seen, isolated world and raise questions about the unforgiving impact of tradition on families.

Impractical Spaces: Houston resurrects the stories of the city’s artist-run venues since 1947.

Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle.

The All Night Movie recounts the artist’s experiences in New York’s art world of the 1970s and ’80s with a list of mostly bygone names and places.

Borrowing the model of the palimpsest, George's The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam takes the reader on a vivid tour of the renowned mosque’s history, meaning, and significance.

Mimi Plumb's photos of 1980s and ’90s San Francisco look at the dissonance between an expanding metropolis and its surrounding environment.

If art is power, as Farah Nayeri's Takedown consistently shows, then how can galleries and museums successfully negotiate relationships of power?

Isolde Brielmaier’s book I Am Sparkling illustrates how Parekh’s studio became a place for sitters to assert their agency in a changing world.

Ruth Millington tells the story of the women (and nine men) who have been portrayed in various paintings considered “masterpieces.”

Shannon Taggart’s book SÈANCE pictures the supernatural occurrences in the lives of Spiritualists, seekers, mediums, and other occult practitioners.

Spell Bound helps readers curious about the craft to both see and understand the wide array of expressions that magic can assume, including in the context of new technologies.

Carla Zaccagnini’s Cuentos de Cuentas recounts her personal history amid Latin America’s history of financial crises.

If Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus radically redefines the scope of philosophy, it has proved irresistibly suggestive to literary theorists, poets, and artists.

Colby Deal’s photographs capture very little on an individual basis, but an entire world when taken in aggregate.

Artists in My Life dissolves the fourth wall between artist, art object, and viewer, offering a welcome approach to arts writing as an extension of how artists live.

When I recently came across Sandra Cattaneo Adorno’s photo book Águas de Ouro, I could hear the waves and boomboxes, and even taste the salt on my lips.

Gladman’s poems suggest how ecological knowledge can affect how we can imagine cities.

Julia Guez knows that her poetry can make a "real ask" of readers, with its peculiar vocabulary and indeterminate tendencies, and that gives her hope.

Using the pressures of adolescence and indoctrination of the church as a framework, Campbell captures the stress endured by young women and their bodies.

Laura Larson’s City of Incurable Women draws from archival materials to speculate on the lives of women who were famously hospitalized for hysteria throughout history.

Immy Humes’s The Only Woman is a deeply satisfying array of women scientists, artists, writers, medical students, politicians, and even criminals, all pictured among their fellows.

The camera became the center of Chauncey Hare's life, and a tool for awakening his political consciousness.

In no small feat, Why I Make Art condenses artists’ multifaceted, meandering spoken stories into lively, relatable narratives that draw the reader in.

Author Jillian Hernandez theorizes the intersecting formations of gender, class, and race in relation to the self-presentation of Black and Latina women and girls.

Mortality and memory are points of inquiry in this posthumous publication.

A reimagining of the life of renowned queer author Patricia Highsmith isn’t a tale of admiration or condemnation, but one about the complex nature of womanhood.

Listening to Clay sheds light on how Japanese clay workers went from skilled production craftspeople to fine artists, transforming the country’s culture in the process.

Author Malcolm Russell's novel approach to history — finding it as it washes up on the riverbanks — makes the past seem very much alive.