Consider generous gifts of Self-Improvement for Others over the Holidays

Here are our completely objective suggestions for the holiday season:

• For everyone: a subscription
• For empty stockings: the small books collection
• For artists and art-lovers: the latest Paper Monument
• For art collectors: a print
• For social critics: the one and only What Was the Hipster?
• For cat lovers: a cat
• For entry-level economists: Diary of a Very Bad Year
• For mind-blowing analysis: David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism
• For Tolstoy apologists: Elif Batuman’s The Possessed
• For early adopters:  Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be?
• For cats: catnip
• For cult classists:  Helen DeWitt’s The Last Samurai
• For obsessives: Rubik’s Cube
• For storytellers: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman … 
• For transcendentalists: Thoreau’s The Journal 
• For historians: Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night
• For the future of publishing: Andre Schiffrin’s Words and Money
• For traditionalists: signed books
• For people who wear cool t-shirts to the gym: a t-shirt
• For those who tote: a tote bag
• For sheer joy: Spinal Tap special edition
• Für die Deutschen: n+1, Ein Schritt weiter
• For honest craftsmanship: Haptic Labs
• For animation fans, for free: Joanna Neborsky’s hipster animation

Enjoy! —The Editors