Maira Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in this inimitable combination of image and text. The Principles of Uncertainty is an irresistible invitation to experience life through a beloved artist's psyche. It is a compilation of Maira Kalman's New York Times columns.

Part personal narrative, part documentary, part travelogue, part chapbook, and all Kalman, these brilliant, whimsical paintings, ideas, and images—which initially appear random—ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview, an idiosyncratic inner monologue.

Kalman contends with some existential questions: What is identity? What is happiness? Why do we fight wars? And then, of course, death, love, and candy (not necessarily in that order).