ON THE BOOKS
Erik Heywood—who runs the online retail establishment Book/Shop as well
as the blog Books at Home—picks his favorite reads for holiday giving.
No.1 ART MONOGRAPHS
The design and culture aficionados
on your list will appreciate an in-
depth look at any of these fascinat-
ing subjects.
Eighty Years of Book Cover
Design by Joseph Connolly
Rietveld’s Chair by Marijke Kuper
Hockney’s Alphabet by David
Hockney
More Than Words: Illustrated
Letters from the Smithsoni-
an’s Archives of American Art
by Liza Kirwin
No. 2 BIOGRAPHIES
A rich biography is almost certainly avail-
able about any beloved figure or subject.
David Hockney: The Biography by
Christopher Simon Sykes
Gerhard Richter: A Life in
Painting by Dietmar Elger
A Cypress Walk: Letters to ‘Frieda’
by Alun Lewis
Monsieur Proust by Céleste Albaret
Scott Fitzgerald and His World by
Arthur Mizener
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary
Memories from History and the
Arts by Clive James
