Welcome to our Adult Gifts issue! Look no further to find the ideal gift for a friend or loved one, or a token of gratitude for a helpful neighbor.
Among this week's reviews: Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, which "brilliantly showcases hundreds of photos and objects" from the Bob Dylan Center, plus commentary from dozens of writers and artists; the "visually stunning" The New Brownies' Book, in which Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer showcase a multigenerational assortment of collaborators who continue telling the story begun by W.E.B. Du Bois in his monthly magazine The Brownies' Book; and John Waters: Pope of Trash, edited by Jenny He and Dara Jaffe, offers an "audacious and vivacious companion volume" to an Academy Museum of Motion Pictures retrospective by the same name.
In The Writer's Life, find out what Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mitchell S. Jackson has been reading and what may have shaped Fly, what he calls "the very first book on NBA fashion, the most sartorial-minded sports league." Plus, we have more gift recommendations, reviewed earlier this year.