Apollo Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Dune
Frank Herbert'Featuring no text, aside from the credits and a brief end quotation from Frank Herbert’s Dune, it’s an enigmatic and sinister affair.' Diane Smyth reviews Latvian artist Julia Soboleva's monograph https://www.apollo-magazine.com/julia-soboleva-monograph-reviewed/
Paperback, 2005
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Architecture: An Introductory Reader
Rudolf SteinerIn the October issue, out now: @edwinheathcote considers the other-worldly architecture of Rudolf Steiner https://t.co/o84gek24wf
Paperback, 2004
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard: And Other Poems...
Thomas GrayThomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ was the best-loved poem of the 18th century – and has proved a lure to illustrators ever since https://t.co/7iSbecgmeK
Paperback, 2011
$18.75Member price:$9.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bao
Erchen ChangAfter meeting at the Slade, Erchen Chang, Shing Tat Chung and Wai Ting have taken the creation of the soft, steamy buns to new heights @bao_london https://t.co/owNdjjJcuO https://t.co/CKcifBS9Dv
Hardcover, 2023
$39.95Member price:$19.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James JoyceFrom James Joyce’s Ulysses to Francis Bacon’s screaming portraits, we’ve picked 4 objects to bring you closer to many myths of Ireland this #StPatricksDay. @NatGalleriesSco @littlemuseumdub @fondartecrt @artinstitutechi Sponsored by @bbgconnects. https://t.co/KSZ0GeAvF3 https://t.co/le6tnjelp7
Paperback, 1990
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Art: A Ruskin Anthology
John RuskinJohn Ruskin, the foremost art critic of the Victorian era, died #OTD in 1900. Here, Marcus Waithe considers how relevant his ideas are today https://t.co/2pNbp4c0Rg
Paperback, 2022
$18.95Member price:$17.06 + Free shipping10% off
Moby Dick
Herman MelvilleHerman Melville was born #OTD in 1819. Here Matthew Kerr looks at the artists who have set out to capture the novelist’s great white whale, Moby Dick. https://t.co/Bm9o5uSJ2P #fromthearchives
Paperback, 2011
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Bamigboye: A Master Sculptor of the Yoruba Tradition
James GreenCurator James Green takes a close look at a carving by Bamigboye, a sculptor who represented the beating heart of his community in the early 20th century https://t.co/V7vSHiCSbp
Hardcover, 2022
$50.00Member price:$25.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ripper: The Secret Life of Walter Sickert
Patricia Cornwell'Twenty years ago, popular crime writer Patricia Cornwell published a non-fiction book called "Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper – Case Closed" in which she proposed that artist Walter Sickert had been the 19th century’s most famous serial killer...' https://t.co/EaU7JEmOGv
Hardcover, 2017
$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Art
Auguste Rodin.@the_clark explores how the Auguste Rodin's reception among American collectors and critics has shifted over the decades, plus more from Apollo's art diary https://t.co/svOUO73I9e
Hardcover, 2025
$31.95Member price:$28.75 + Free shipping10% off