• Design

    Afrofuturism

    On the Power of Afrofuturism in the 21st Century

    By Tim Fielder  January 21, 2021
    The Hub

    Check out these vintage pulp covers for classic Patricia Highsmith novels.

    By Emily Temple  January 19, 2021
    The Hub

    If you miss visiting the library, try the Internet Archive’s new virtual browsing tool.

    By Walker Caplan  January 11, 2021
    The Hub

    Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

    By Emily Temple  January 8, 2021
    Mathematics

    Sometimes You Just Need a Math Prodigy to Explain the Quotidian Uses of the Fourth Dimension

    By Milo Beckman  January 8, 2021
    The Hub

    Christopher Hitchens’s backlist is getting a cool new redesign.

    By Emily Temple  December 17, 2020
    Change Lab

    Elle Hearns on Leading a Movement for Black Trans Lives

    By Change Lab  December 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Who wore it better? US book covers vs. their UK counterparts.

    By Emily Temple  December 15, 2020
    Secrets of the Book Designer

    How to Give Octavia Butler the Covers She Deserves

    By Elizabeth Connor  December 15, 2020
    Book Covers

    On the Glory Days of the Great
    American Trade Paperback

    By Gerald Howard  December 15, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Helen Drutt English on the Essentialness of
    Creating by Hand

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 15, 2020
    Comics

    Why Ernest Hemingway Makes a Great Subject for
    Comic Book Artists

    By Robert K. Elder  December 14, 2020
    European History

    Memorializing History’s Dark Corners With Absurdity

    By Keith Lowe  December 10, 2020
    New York City

    The Private Lives of Shuttered Stores: On Abandoned Interiors

    By Mark Hage  December 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: William Evans and Omar Holmon’s Black Nerd Problems.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 9, 2020
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s new novel, Savage Tongues.

    By Emily Temple  December 8, 2020
    Architecture

    Doreen St. Félix on June Jordan’s Vision of a Black Future

    By Doreen St. Félix  December 7, 2020
    Change Lab

    Grace Lynne Haynes on the Coexisting Beauty of
    Darkness and Light

    By Change Lab  December 4, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 89 Best Book Covers of 2020

    By Emily Temple  December 2, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of November

    By Emily Temple  November 25, 2020
    Book Covers

    What a Book Cover Can Do

    By Peter Mendelsund and David J. Alworth  November 25, 2020
    Illustrations

    What Does it Take to Illustrate Elie Wiesel’s Books?

    By Literary Hub  November 25, 2020
    Magazine Covers

    Bruce McCall: The Story Behind Eight New Yorker Covers

    By Bruce McCall  November 24, 2020
    Cities

    Gotham, Metropolis, Shanghai, Warsaw: On the Anxieties of Cities

    By Ben Wilson  November 12, 2020
    Architecture

    A People’s History of Bathing

    By Christie Pearson  November 10, 2020
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