Books Read, 2025
- Against Platforms – Mike Pepi
- Class Trip and The Moustache – Emmanuel Carrere
- A Visible Distance: Craft, Creativity, and the Business of Design – Matt Owens
- Josef Albers: Life and Work – Charles Darwent
- Stay True – Hua Hsu
- Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
- Notes on Peter Eisenman: The Gradual Vanishing of Architecture – M. Murry Schlabs
- An Octoroon – Branden Jacob-Jenkins
- Defuturing: A New Design Philosophy – Tony Fry
- The Late Americans – Brandon Taylor
- The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in the Age of Extremism – Tim Alberta
- Lila – Marilynne Robinson
- The Siren’s Call – Chris Hayes
- Flourish: Design Paradigms for the Planetary Imaginary – Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlin
- Abundance – Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
- The Extreme Self – Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Orbist
- Sanding Down Gravestones – Lars Morch Finborud
- House of X/Powers of X – Jonathan Hickman
- Rental House – Weike Wang
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
- A *Co* Program for Graphic Design – David Reinfurt
- A *New* Program for Graphic Design – David Reinfurt
- Perfection – Vincenzo Latronico
- The Novelist – Jordan Castro
- Exhibitionist – Peter Mendelsund
- Rejection – Tony Tulathimutti
- Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening – Ben Ratliff
- Audition – Katie Kitamura
- Skyfaring – Mark Vanhoenacker
- Weepers – Peter Mendelsund
- Toyko These Days, Volume 1 – Taiyo Matusmoto
- Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company – Patrick McGee
- Stoner – John Williams
- Should Could Might Don’t – Nick Foster
- Tokyo These Days, Volume 2 – Taiyo Matusmoto
- Tilt – Emma Patee
- The Invention of Design – Maggie Gram
- One Woman Show – Christine Coulson
- Perspective(s) – Laurent Binet
- _Design and Visual Communication _ – Bruno Munari
- Enshittification – Cory Doctorow
- The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Voung
- Above The Pavement—the Farm! Architecture and Agriculture at P.F. 1 – Amale Andraos and Dan Wood
- The House of Doctor Koolaas – Francoise Fromonot
- The Hearing Test – Eliza Barry Callahan
- The Design Comedy – Otto von Busch
- Communications – Raymond Williams
- More Than One: Geo Ponti – Manfredo di Robilant & Manuel Orazi (eds.)
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat – Hito Steyerl
- Theory & Practice – Michelle de Kretser
- Tokyo These Days, Volume 3 – Taiyo Matusmoto
- Twist – Colum McCann