Books
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Make the Booker Prize shortlist your new reading list
This year’s Booker Prize shortlist captures the emotional complexity of our times, with stories of fractured families, shifting identities and the search for meaning in unfamiliar places
By Charlotte Gunn Last updated
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Thomas Prior’s photography captures the uncanny fragility of American life
A new book unites two decades of the photographer’s piercing, uneasy work
By Finn Blythe Published
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Carla Rossi explores benchmark beauty standards in new photo book ‘Bellissima’
The photographer’s new publication explores the representation of women in Italian media culture
By Laura Havlin Published
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‘Alphabetical Playground’ is a new book about experimental graphics and abstract letterforms
Nigel Cottier’s new monograph ‘Alphabetical Playground’ explores the creative limits of contemporary typography, delving into tech-driven geometric abstraction
By Jonathan Bell Published
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‘Scripted’ is a new book that explores the dark side of beauty photography
Photographer Alex Black’s images explore and subvert contemporary definitions of beauty – take a peek inside her new book
By Mary Cleary Published
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Explore the design and history of the humble camping tent in a new book
‘The Camping Tent’ by Typologie reframes a familiar object, revealing its complexity and cultural weight – and invites us to look at it anew
By Ali Morris Published
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Seoul welcomes the world’s first MoMA Bookstore
Manhattan’s cultural heavyweight opens its first dedicated bookstore – in Seoul, in partnership with Hyundai Card
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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Rolex and Wallpaper* present the first authorised history of the Datejust watch
Rolex and Wallpaper* partner again to publish ‘Oyster Perpetual Datejust – A Watch that Made History’, written by Nicholas Foulkes, available now
By Tianna Williams Published
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Where writers write: 12 Booker Prize 2025 nominees share their writing spots
From kitchen tables to bare desks (and even a cemetery bench): 12 writers from the Booker Prize 2025 longlist on their favourite writing set-ups
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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When did we stop dreaming of a better future? A new book presents four hopeful scenarios
In her debut book, ‘Designing Hope’, Sarah Housley explores how design might help create more equitable, inclusive and radically liveable futures
By Ali Morris Published
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Piers Hanmer on designing the sets for some of fashion’s most memorable images
A new book charts the era-defining work of British set designer Piers Hanmer, who was discovered by Annie Leibovitz and went on to work on some of fashion’s most inventive imagery, including spreads in Vogue, Vanity Fair and W Magazine
By Orla Brennan Published
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A new book reframes interior design history through a feminist lens
Dr Jane Hall’s latest book 'Making Space' asserts the significance of interior design, celebrating women who shaped the spaces we live in
By Ali Morris Published
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Cult classic ‘Teenagers in Their Bedrooms’ captures the angst of being a teen
Are 1990s teens so different? Three decades after its original release, this photography book by Adrienne Salinger has been published again, by DAP
By Hannah Silver Published
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The best contemporary art books to enjoy now
From maverick memoirs to topical tomes, turn over a new leaf with the Wallpaper* arts desk’s pick of new releases and all-time favourite art books
By Anna Solomon Last updated
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A new photo book explores the symbolic beauty of the Japanese garden
‘Modern Japanese Gardens’ from Thames & Hudson traces the 20th-century evolution of these serene spaces, where every element has a purpose
By Anna Solomon Published
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How to be butch: Clark Henley’s sharp, satirical and playful manual is back in print
The 1982 classic, ‘The Butch Manual: The Current Drag and How to Do It’, full of tongue-in-cheek advice, is available once again
By Hannah Silver Published
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Remembering X-girl’s notorious 1994 fashion show, which starred a pre-fame Chloë Sevigny
A new book by Angela Hill, ‘X-girl Show’ – featuring an introduction by Chloë Sevigny – documents the cult label’s renegade 1990s fashion show, which took place in New York and captured a changing underground look
By Zoe Whitfield Published
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We are all fetishists, says Anastasiia Fedorova in her new book, which takes a deep dive into kink
In ‘Second Skin’, writer and curator Fedorova takes a tour through the materials, objects and power dynamics we have fetishised
By Upasana Das Published
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50 years of Santoni, the footwear brand steeped in Italian craft, celebrated in a new book
Inside ‘Santoni Meraviglia’, a richly illustrated new tome published by Assouline that tells the story behind the Italian brand’s meticulously crafted footwear
By Jack Moss Published
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The glory years of the Cannes Film Festival are captured in a new photo book
‘Cannes’ by Derek Ridgers looks back on the photographer's time at the Cannes Film Festival between 1984 and 1996
By Hannah Silver Published
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Modernist Travel Guide: a handy companion to explore modernism across the globe
‘Modernist Travel Guide’, a handy new pocket-sized book for travel lovers and modernist architecture fans, comes courtesy of Wallpaper* contributor Adam Štěch and his passion for modernism
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Wild sauna, anyone? The ultimate guide to exploring deep heat in the UK outdoors
‘Wild Sauna’, a new book exploring the finest outdoor establishments for the ultimate deep-heat experience in the UK, has hit the shelves; we find out more about the growing trend
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Formula 1 in photos: 100 memorable moments
A new book, ‘Formula 1: The Impossible Collection’, marks 75 years of the motor-racing championship – a history full of tenacity, triumph and tragedy
By Bridget Downing Published
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Taschen’s sexy record covers are hitting all the right notes
Taschen has been through 50 years of album art for its latest tome, ‘Sexy Record Covers’
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘Independence, community, legacy’: inside a new book documenting the history of cult British streetwear label Aries
Rizzoli’s ‘Aries Arise Archive’ documents the last ten years of the ‘independent, rebellious’ London-based label. Founder Sofia Prantera tells Wallpaper* the story behind the project
By Jack Moss Published
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This arresting new photography book is a visual mediation on daily life in Indonesia
With his lens, photographer Farid Renais Ghimas explores home, memory and the spaces in between
By Sofia de la Cruz Published
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‘Dressed to Impress’ captures the vivid world of everyday fashion in the 1950s and 1960s
A new photography book from The Anonymous Project showcases its subjects when they’re dressed for best, posing for events and celebrations unknown
By Jonathan Bell Published