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Eccentric Lives: The Daily Telegraph Book of 21st Century Obituaries collects some of the best wry obits. You know it is not polite to talk ill of the dead.

A book is like an umbrella, if they are to work, you have to open them. Rebecca Solnit’s letter about books with artist’s Liniers response is a thing of beauty.

Leila Philip’s BEAVERLAND is an intimate and revelatory dive into the world of the beaver—the wonderfully weird rodent that shaped American history and future.

Ada Calhoun stumbled upon old cassette tapes of interviews her father Peter Schjeldahl, had conducted for a never-completed biography of poet Frank O’Hara.

Christmas is around the corner, my house is littered with Peanuts-related holiday ornaments. This red lantern snow globe has got my eye as of late.

A lively illustrated tour of London in the company of Vic Lee — artist, storyteller and self-confessed ‘ragamuffin from south-east London’.

Rian Hughes’ Rayguns and Rocketships: Vintage Science Fiction Book Cover Art from Korero Press is out now. Vintage science fiction art is so rad and cool.

Yellow Butterfly: A Story From Ukraine is so reminiscent of  Akiyuki Nosaka’s Grave of the Fireflies. Writer and illustrator Oleksandr Shatokhin’s wordless poetic story use of a child in a war situation is heartbreaking even in symbolic form.

Tree Buddees is ushering in Xmas with a hilarious and slightly dark humor ornament that shows a mouse wearing red pants and yellow shoes caught in a mouse trap!

Gerry Anderson took you to space with Fireball XL5, then made a splash with Stingray under the sea. Barry Gray’s theme song for Stingray is a musical odyssey.

In Alice Cooper at 75, veteran rock journalist Gary Graff shows you this rock icon through the lens of 75 career accomplishments, events, and partnerships.

The book “Twas The Night – The Art and History of the Classic Christmas Poem” celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the 1822 Christmas Eve poem.