Book reviews and extracts

Exploring Calvin and Hobbes is the companion book to a show at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University which celebrates the popular comic strip created by Bill Watterson from 1985-1995. The cartoon strip features six-year-old Calvin and his...

Jerusalem, 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven accompanies the Met's exhibition exploring art from medieval Jerusalem. Featuring nearly 200 artworks, it is the first publication to focus on the 11th to 14th century, a moment of unparalleled creativity in Jerusalem's complex history....

  Ah-Ha to Zig-Zag is Maira Kalman's charming and intelligent children’s book counterpart of her magnificent book, My Favorite Things. Both books were published on the occasion of an exhibition Kalman curated at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.   In this beautiful...

The cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues in his book, The Better Angels of Our Nature, that the world has overall become a less violent place. Design and Violence challenges this assertion, arguing instead violence has not reduced but simply mutated and that designers, intentionally or unintentionally, have helped this to happen.