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    The Hub

    Six reissued classics to get hyped for this fall.

     
    By Brittany Allen  August 19, 2025
    News and Culture

    Secrecy, Leverage, and Power: The Art World’s Economy of Truth

    By Orlando Whitfield  August 15, 2025
    Photography

    Tobias Wolff on Adrienne Salinger’s Iconic Teenagers in Their Bedrooms Thirty Years Later

    By Literary Hub  August 12, 2025
    News and Culture

    A Happy One-Trick Multi-Book Pony: On Writing Novels About Art History

    By B.A. Shapiro  August 4, 2025
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2025
    Motherhood

    Drawing Motherhood: Four Graphic Memoirists Discuss Their Books on Parenting Life

    By Rachel Deutsch  July 29, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Children's Literature

    Small Book, Big Ideas: Harold and the Purple Crayon and the Art of Imagination

    By Philip Nel  July 28, 2025
    Comics

    If Charlie Brown Were a Socialist: On Beloved Argentine Comic Strip Mafalda

    By Alex Dueben  July 21, 2025
    American History

    Painting the Revolution:
    The Artists Who Joined the Fight For American Independence

    By Zara Anishanslin  July 17, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 15, 2025
    Black Arts

    How Houston’s Third Ward Became a Hub of Black Art, Culture, and Opportunity

    By Lauren O'Neill Butler  July 2, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 27, 2025
    Art and Life

    On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

    By Ellen O'Connell Whittet  June 25, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  June 20, 2025
    Literary Magazines

    First Impressions: 15 Years of The Common Through Its Covers

    By Kei Lim  June 9, 2025
    The Hub

    New Yorkers can meet the Moomins at a new exhibit. (And for everyone else, here’s a sneak preview.)

    By Brittany Allen  June 5, 2025
    The Hub

    All the fake books in Wes Anderson’s multiverse, ranked.

    By Brittany Allen  June 2, 2025
    Photography

    There’s No Place Like Home—Except the Beach: Visual Stories of Montauk, New York

    Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt: "The beach is the divide between one world, the dry, and another, the wet. It is a mythical place of transformation."

    By Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt  May 22, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    100 Book Covers for Mrs. Dalloway

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2025
    The Hub

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  May 9, 2025
    literary criticism

    Poet of the Queer Brotherhood: How William Blake Influenced Oscar Wilde’s Circle

    By Philip Hoare  May 7, 2025
    The Hub

    Trump’s NEA is terminating hundreds of grants in literature, theater, and the arts.

    By James Folta  May 5, 2025
    Children

    Kids Are Actually Really Funny, Wise, Weird, and Philosophical

    By Literary Hub  May 5, 2025
    Art History

    Dogs Through the Ages: A Creative History of a Faithful Human Companion

    By Jessica Poundstone  May 5, 2025
    Photography

    Flashes of Brilliance: The 19th-Century Innovations That Shaped Modern Photography

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