books

A sample of Roland Barthe's poetic insights about Japan

5 reasons why Barthes "meditation" on Japan as an epiphany of "empty signs" has me awestruck

What! Debbie Harry and Teri Toye in person, in the same room on the same night! TI trembles.

The Chance Is Higher by Dashwood designed by the Swiss team Gavillet and Rust.

Tiffany Godoy's book is a triple must buy

Modernism on Paper: Japanese Graphic Design of the 1920s and 30s

Better late than never and better in the current context says TI

Would it be gauche to be caught reading this on the beach?

Caracole by Edmund White won't be made into a film anytime soon. Trust!

"A seduction through language, a masque without masks, Caracole brings back to startling life a dormant strain in serious American writing: the idea of the romantic."--Cynthia Ozick

Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

James Baldwin

TI's weekend reading will be "Couples" by John Updike. I'm thinking "all the details "Icestorm" glossed over

The Bouroullec Bros venerate the legacy