Books

December 4, 2025

Best of 2025: Top 10 Creative Coffee Table Books To Gift or To Treasure for Yourself

Because they come in all shapes and sizes—literally—and cover such a broad spectrum of topics, coffee table books have become one of the most suitable gifts for the design-minded among us. This shouldn’t necessarily come as a surprise: these tomes enchant with their large-scale images; they effortlessly elevate an interior with their packaging; and, above all, they reveal the enduring appeal of visual art, photography, and design across history.

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November 28, 2025

Annie Leibovitz’s ‘Women’ Book Is a Daring Quest Into the Heart of Contemporary Womanhood

For Annie Leibovitz, there is perhaps no more fruitful of a subject than women. “Women are a work in progress,” the photographer remarked in a 2016 interview with the New York Times. “To my dying day, I’ll be doing these photographs.” If the work of photographing women is forever ongoing, then Phaidon’s reprint of her 1999 classic, Women, is an ambitious continuation of that mission.

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October 9, 2025

World’s Best Wildlife Photographers Come Together in New Book To Shine Light on the Plight of Pangolins

Remembering Wildlife is a book series that uses stunning visuals to educate the world about endangered wildlife, and to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the series has released its biggest book to date. 10 Years of Remembering Wildlife features not only some of the best images from previous books and winners of a photo contest, but it also contains a section of photographs of the world’s most trafficked animal—the pangolin.

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September 27, 2025

New Book Explores Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Enduring Fascination With the Human Head

Few names across art history will inspire complete familiarity in even the most casual of art enthusiasts. Jean-Michel Basquiat is one such name. Throughout his short yet storied life (he died in 1988, at 27 years old), Basquiat engineered one of the world’s most recognizable styles, combining graffiti, illustration, and abstract expressionism into a highly contemporary art form. But even with his diverse output, Basquiat often returned to one subject in particular: the human head.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.