This is an old edition of Meanwhile from an inferior, more simian newsletter platform that has unhelpfully severed all the hyperlinks. It’s included here in the archive simply for sake of completeness.
In praise of reader reviews – a professional book critic on what she learns from the masses on Amazon and Goodreads.
Can you read a book the wrong way? Adam Kirsch and Anna Holmes debate whether some methods of reading are more correct than others.
Fabulous letterist and illustrator Kimberly Glyder talks to Spine about typography and covers.
MoMA will make thousands of exhibition images available online. So good to see more and more museums doing this sort of thing. Cultural archives are the lifeblood of the internet whatever the hell lifeblood is. Life. Blood. What other kind of blood is there?
The links between creativity and depression. And when you're done reading that, check out Anxy, a lovely new magazine about mental health.
If you have ears, you'll love the North V South podcast, in which Jonathan Elliman and Rob Turpin talk about design and news and pies.
How one woman photographed every library in New York.Probably with a camera.
Taschen's enormous new book collecting the work of HR Giger is stunning … and, Taschen being Taschen, waaay too expensive for regular humans. Save some pennies and pick up angsty teenage mainstay ARh+.
Inside The Sugar Skull: Charles Burns on punk rock, art school and why he won’t draw his mid-life crisis. A gem from the It's Nice That arrive.