What to Read: 4 New Coffee Table Books Lauren Christensen Reading in Durham, N.C. SEEING SILENCE: The Beauty of the World’s Most Quiet Places, by Pete McBride.

Coffee-Table Books to Give (and Get) This Season. Bridging the literary and aesthetic worlds, some of the year’s best large-scale, ... Tony Cenicola/The New York Times. For the Groupies.

Coffee-table books can be ambitious works of scholarship, ... THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPLETE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865, edited with commentary by Harold Holzer and Craig L. Symonds ...

The companion book to a now-closed exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, “Writing the Future” traces Basquiat’s engagement with a downtown New York milieu, which included the ...

A book, “World of Nobu,” looks at the chef Nobu Matsuhisa’s restaurant empire through recipes and profiles. By Florence Fabricant Nobuyuki (Nobu) Matsuhisa is one of the best-known Japanese ...

It’s a rare and refreshing moment for the queer coffee table book collector (your reporter included): As New York City prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion by ...