North Korea: Anonymous Country

Disguised as a tourist, photojournalist Julia Leeb offers a glimpse of the isolated society in a new hardcover book

North Korea may be a familiar figure in international news headlines, but even in the age of the internet, the little we know stems mostly from rumors, accounts from defectors who risked their lives to escape and bizarre YouTube videos. Though Korea was a whole body with a shared history for more than a thousand years, since dividing in 1945, North Korea has greatly diverged …

Sage Advice from The Chef Says

Bite-sized words of wisdom from the industry's best cooks

A continuation in a “Words of Wisdom” series that has already delivered the compelling “The Designer Says” and “The Filmmaker Says,” Princeton Architectural Press is now offering insight from within one of the most-consumed but perhaps least considered arts: cooking. “The Chef Says” bundles quotations from 150 of the world’s best—from rising stars, award winners and even a Greek playwright. Compiled and edited by Nach …

Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013

Photographer Brian Rose's never-before printed images of the ever-evolving NYC neighborhood

A few years after Brian Rose‘s fascinating photo book “Time and Space on the Lower East Side” (which explored the LES over two very different time periods) comes the photographer’s new tome “Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013.” Back in the ’80s, the Meatpacking District still reflected its name and Rose wandered the streets almost daily—armed with his 4×5 view camera. In the early mornings, …