From a Shigeru Ban monograph to a book of national-parks maps, a selection of the year’s best books for design lovers.

A number of these books are pricey, but found online at deep discounts. A number are also, for the right person, a gift that never leaves their possession, never finds itself in a thrift store, ...

"This lavish coffee table hardback book is the first and only book of its kind to take a visual journey through the mind and ...

The Village Voice offers a gift-giving guide on hard copies of some cinema classics, oddballs, and bizarro porn.

Tobias Carroll on the five books in translation that should be on your radar this month, from Egypt, India, Poland, and more.

Our favorite titles of the year resurrect forgotten histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Designer and writer of Otto, Sam de Groot, expands on the pleasure of bringing a typeface to “its natural habitat: telling a story”.

Books are the gift that keep on giving, and these four will make excellent conversation starters on any coffee table. Impress ...

She has compiled a scrupulously researched, profusely illustrated and deftly written examination ... a tiny but indomitable ...

Nader Habib shares the story of Almussawar, the first photojournalism magazine in Egypt, when it began publication a century ...

The past year saw an abundance of new books of interest to Canadian architects—many of them authored by Canadian designers.