A Jury of Her Peers

Design by Barbara de Wilde
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Elaine Showalter's history of American women writers examines "women's relationship to the literary marketplace" (read Katha Pollitt's Slate review), and the illustration pretty clearly spells out what that relationship has been for most of our history: women have supported the canon but have rarely been granted access to the center of it.

The Good Thief

Designer info to come

More silhouettes. See also here and here.

Time to Buy Stock in X-acto Knife?

What should we call this: the Kara Walker effect? Further evidence of the return to handicraft -- or at least what looks like handicraft -- in graphic design? Discuss...

(Monsters of Templeton is new; the others have been featured here within the past 6 months or so. But it seems like I'm seeing silhouettes everywhere; I'll try to find some examples.)