Frankenstein: Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro by Sheila O’Malley (Insight Editions) This lavish production invites readers inside the shadowed imagination of Guillermo del Toro as he reinterprets Mary Shelley’s enduring myth. Filled with storyboards, concept art, film stills, and candid set photography, the book reveals the meticulous design thinking behind the director’s highly anticipated adaptation. Interviews with the cast including Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, and Christoph Waltz illuminate performances shaped by rich period detail and psychological depth. Particularly compelling are del Toro’s own notebook sketches of the creature, reproduced alongside handcrafted ephemera inserted into each copy. Grand in scale and visually arresting, this is less a companion volume than an artifact of cinematic devotion. https://insighteditions.com/

Green-Roof Houses: Environmentally Responsive Architecture by Oscar Riera Ojeda, James Moore McCown (Rizzoli) This richly illustrated survey explores how thirty-two residences across the globe—from Tokyo and São Paulo to Barcelona and the Hamptons—have turned their rooftops into active landscapes. Rather than treating greenery as ornament, the projects integrate living roofs as essential architectural systems, improving insulation, water management, air quality, and biodiversity. Essays and photography place these homes within a broader history of ecological design, while showcasing the ingenuity of firms such as Studio Arthur Casas and Guz Architects. The book offers a compelling case for sustainability as both an environmental strategy and a source of architectural beauty. https://www.rizzoliusa.com/

The Art of Korean Cooking by Onjium (Thames & Hudson) This elegant volume offers a deeply considered entry point into Korean cuisine, balancing scholarship with practical instruction. Developed by Onjium, the book gathers more than eighty rigorously tested recipes while weaving in essays that trace culinary traditions from the Goryeo and Joseon dynasties to the present. Particular attention is given to Royal Court cooking, reinterpreted with contemporary finesse. With over 120 refined illustrations, the book reads as both cultural document and working kitchen companion—an invitation to understand Korean food as history, ritual, and living art. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Wu Bin: The Design Language of Timeless East by Wu Bin (Rizzoli) This elegant monograph presents Wu Bin as a master of restraint in an age of visual excess. Drawing from recent projects by W.DESIGN, from mountain hotels and seaside estates to urban apartments, the book reveals an interior language that fuses Chinese landscape traditions with Western modernism. Wu’s spaces favor proportion, material intelligence, and a fluid dialogue between inside and out, producing environments of rare composure. Grand volumes are tempered by subtle detail and natural rhythm. Finished with an embroidered cloth cover, the volume mirrors the designer’s ethos: luxurious, disciplined, and quietly resonant. https://www.rizzoliusa.com/

The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson by Anna Nyburg (Thames & Hudson) Marking seventy-five years of independent publishing, this ambitious volume charts how Thames & Hudson turned the idea of a “museum without walls” into a lasting cultural force. Structured in three chronological sections, the book traces the house’s evolution from its prewar origins to its global present, guided by incisive essays from historian Nyburg. Lavish pictorial spreads celebrate landmark titles across art, design, fashion, and architecture, revealing how form and scholarship have advanced together. Featuring 2,000 illustrations—1,800 in color—it’s both a publishing history and a manifesto for the art book as object. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Cartier Monaco by Alexandra Campbell, Hervé Dewintre (Flammarion) This sumptuous volume traces Cartier’s enduring relationship with Monaco, where glamour, royalty, and Mediterranean light converged. From the maison’s early presence on the Riviera to its close association with Grace Kelly, the book reveals how landmark jewels—engagement rings, tiaras, and rivière necklaces—became woven into the principality’s modern mythology. Richly illustrated and historically attentive, it situates Cartier’s Monaco boutique not as a retail destination but as a cultural fixture, reaffirming the house’s role in shaping Riviera elegance across generations. https://www.rizzoliusa.com/

The Iconic Nordic House: Modern Masterworks Since 1900 by Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers (Thames & Hudson) This sweeping survey traces why the Nordic home continues to set the global standard for modern living. Bringing together forty houses across Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, the book moves fluidly between midcentury pioneers and today’s sustainability-driven innovators. Remote mountain retreats, waterside dwellings, and urban landmarks reveal a shared commitment to warmth, restraint, and environmental sensitivity. Specially commissioned photography—more than 400 color illustrations in total—anchors the analysis in place, making a persuasive case for a regional tradition that balances experimentation with deep respect for landscape and light. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Zofia Kulik by Zofia Kulik (Thames & Hudson) This bracing retrospective positions Kulik as one of the most uncompromising image-makers to emerge from postwar Europe. Spanning early collaborative work to her monumental solo photomontages, the book traces how Kulik fused feminism, eroticism, and political history into densely patterned black-and-white compositions that probe power, identity, and the psyche. Her iconic series The Splendor of Myself anchors a broader survey that also recovers lesser-known experiments. With 150 color illustrations and incisive critical texts, the volume offers a long-overdue introduction to an artist whose work remains unsettling, exacting, and fiercely intelligent. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Ocean: From the Shore to the Abyss by Asha de Vos (Thames & Hudson) This immersive volume charts the ocean as a vertical world, guiding readers from the familiar shallows to the near-mythic depths of the abyss. Organized by depth zones, the book pairs lucid scientific framing with arresting imagery—microscopic organisms, radiant coral systems, and the abstract geometry of deep-sea life—revealing how dramatically conditions shape existence beneath the surface. A concluding section traces humanity’s evolving relationship with the oceans, from exploration to conservation. With 412 color illustrations, archival material, and elegant infographics, it balances visual wonder with quiet urgency, making a persuasive case for understanding—and protecting—the planet’s largest living system. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love? by Kaylene Whiskey (Thames & Hudson) This exuberant first monograph introduces Kaylene Whiskey as a singular force in contemporary painting. Working from Iwantja Arts in remote Central Australia, Whiskey folds pop divas like Dolly Parton, Cher, Tina Turner into Anangu cosmology, recasting global icons within the Seven Sisters story with wit and affection. Her dotted, doodle-inflected compositions brim with speech bubbles, rainbows, and defiant femininity, balancing humor with cultural assertion. Essays and an extended artist interview illuminate a practice that treats pop culture not as spectacle but as shared language, joyfully braided with tradition, memory, and community life. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

The Primacy of Drawing by Deanna Petherbridge (Thames & Hudson) In this expanded second edition, Deanna Petherbridge makes a rigorous case for drawing as the foundation of visual thought rather than a preparatory afterthought. Moving from ancient origin myths to contemporary debates about technology and performance, she maps a continuum between exploratory sketch and formal study, examining line, mark, and composition with pedagogical clarity. Chapters on copying, academic training, satire, and eroticism reveal how drawing structures invention itself. Illustrated with 253 color images, the book functions as both a critical history and a practical framework for understanding how artists think on paper. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Switzerland: The Monocle Handbook by Monocle Et al. (Thames & Hudson) The latest entry in Monocle’s travel handbook series approaches Switzerland with equal parts precision and pleasure. Drawing on deep local knowledge, the guide moves easily from historic towns and alpine villages to contemporary architecture in Zurich, Basel, and Geneva, while spotlighting places to eat, stay, shop, and linger. Beyond itineraries, it also considers longer-term living, profiling cantons, designers, and domestic interiors. Illustrated with 350 color images, the book balances inspiration with utility, making it as useful for a weekend escape as for anyone contemplating a more permanent Swiss foothold. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

The Prado Masterpieces by Museo Nacional del Prado (Thames & Hudson) Published by Museo Nacional del Prado itself, this impressive survey offers a lucid, chronological passage through one of the world’s most consequential art collections. Moving from classical sculpture to the political ruptures of the nineteenth century, the book reveals how royal taste shaped the evolution of European painting. Landmark works by Velázquez, El Greco, and Goya anchor thematic sections on portraiture, still life, and religious art, while cross-generational pairings illuminate artistic influence and dialogue. Illustrated with 385 color images, it functions equally well as a reference guide and a distilled history of Western art. https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/

Shakespeare Thinking by David Womersley (Princeton) This probing study approaches Shakespeare not as an oracle of timeless truths but as a dramatist testing the fault lines of human conflict. Moving across Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and beyond, the book situates the plays within long-running debates about identity, power, religion, and moral compromise. Rather than flattening Shakespeare into universality, it traces how his dramas stage competing visions of civilization and authority, inviting readers to weigh their consequences. The result is a measured, historically attentive argument for why Shakespeare’s work endures—as a searching inquiry into problems that remain unsettled. https://press.princeton.edu/

Railsong: A Novel by Rahul Bhattacharya (Bloomsbury) Set against the clang and upheaval of a newly independent India, Railsong follows Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, as she slips the confines of a drought-stricken town and heads toward Bombay’s promise. The novel is engrossing in its attention to detail: the transition from steam to diesel, the rhythms of railway life, the quiet humiliations of class and gender. Charu’s unlikely rise as railway employee and census enumerator unfolds with elegiac sweep and flashes of humor. Immersive and deeply felt, it renders personal ambition inseparable from a nation in motion. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/