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What If My Book’s Cover Design Misrepresents Its Content?

What If My Book’s Cover Design Misrepresents Its Content?

Saumya Roy on Poverty Porn and the Optical Echo of Book Jackets

By Saumya Roy | September 21, 2021

An Illustrated Collection of Very Honest Book Covers

An Illustrated Collection of Very Honest Book Covers

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber’s Take on the Modern Library

By Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber | September 21, 2021

There is now an enormous portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky in a wheat field in northern Italy.

There is now an enormous portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky in a wheat field in northern Italy.

By Emily Temple | September 20, 2021

On Robert Indiana’s <em>LOVE</em>-Hate Relationship with the Sculpture That Made Him a Star

On Robert Indiana’s LOVE-Hate Relationship with the Sculpture That Made Him a Star

Bob Keyes Considers the Financial Realities of an Iconic Work of Art

By Bob Keyes | September 20, 2021

Colin Meloy's novel is becoming a full-length stop-motion movie.

Colin Meloy's novel is becoming a full-length stop-motion movie.

By Walker Caplan | September 15, 2021

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

Andrea Abi-Karam on Writing To The Dead

By Andrea Abi-Karam | September 15, 2021

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Read the 1985 comic strip that inspired the Bechdel Test.

By Walker Caplan | September 13, 2021

City of Ash: Photographing New York City on the Morning of 9/11

By Rachel Cobb | September 11, 2021

Please enjoy these sexy photos of Jean-Paul Belmondo reading sexily.

By Emily Temple | September 7, 2021

The Seductive Allure of the Real: Remembering the Humble Origins of <em>Saveur</em>

The Seductive Allure of the Real: Remembering the Humble Origins of Saveur

Dorothy Kalins on Perfecting Food Photography—and Rejecting Overblown Editorial Productions

By Dorothy Kalins | September 7, 2021

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

Brigette Benkeman on Dora Maar, Surrealist Photographer and Picasso’s “Weeping Woman”

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | September 7, 2021

Alicia Keys is adapting her own song “Girl on Fire” into a book.

Alicia Keys is adapting her own song “Girl on Fire” into a book.

By Walker Caplan | September 1, 2021

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

Meredith Westgate Wonders About the Role of Memory in the Age of Social Media

By Meredith Westgate | September 1, 2021

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

This Week from the Big Table Podcast with JC Gabel

By Big Table | August 31, 2021

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love  Affair

Illustrating the Risks of Winston Smith’s Love Affair

From Fido Nesti's Adaption of George Orwell's Classic 1984

By George Orwell and Frido Nesti | August 26, 2021

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

The Life and Death of Robert Capa: How a Woman Invented the First Great War Photographer

Giles Tremlett on Gerda Taro, Who Documented the Spanish Civil War and Died in Action

By Giles Tremlett | August 25, 2021

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