Sue Carter Flinn

Japanese pop-artist Yoshitomo Nara’s army of children, with their giant heads, small knives and suspicious eyes, get an appropriately grand big-book treatment with Nobody’s Fool, as part of an exhibition at the Asian Society Museum in New York. Walking that fine line between contemporary art and cartoon, between collectors and hipster mass-merchandise, Nara’s drawings and […]

Sheila, meet Sheila. For her third book, Toronto writer Sheila Heti fictionalizes her own life into the character Sheila Heti, who gets divorced, finds a pervy lover, stalls writing a commissioned play and develops an intense friendship with a painter named Margaux. Their rocky relationship is the most compelling thread in the book, which changes […]

If you think that a book about t-shirts, much less a book about a t-shirt company, is a lame idea, then obviously you haven’t pulled out a credit card on threadless.com, where fans vote on which designs are produced. Nickell keeps the company’s history and Harvard Business School case-study success to a few short essays, […]

Oh James Franco and your big ambitious eyes and your sly smile. You had to fail sometime, right? No one can cut their own arm off (alright, that’s in your movie, 127 Hours, but who else would we pay to watch do that?), make visual art, write plays and screenplays, while pursuing three MFAs from […]

A strong contender for a locally produced holiday gift, Rememberer is not your typical dayplanner. In fact, despite the random empty calendar pages that appear throughout, this book is more of a place to keep memories than things to do. YoRodeo’s amusing activity pages (empty comics to fill in, movies to see, mazes to navigate) […]