• Design

    Domesticity

    Home is a Living Sketchbook: Inside the Artistic Design of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant

    By Melissa Wyse  March 4, 2021
    Myth

    Edward Carey Talks to Alexander Chee About Rewriting a Myth, and the Enduring Power of Pinocchio

    By Alexander Chee  March 3, 2021
    The Hub

    Haruki Murakami has designed a Haruki Murakami-themed T-shirt collection for UNIQLO.

    By Walker Caplan  March 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Peek inside a new illustrated edition of Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus.

    By Emily Temple  March 2, 2021
    The Hub

    Dr. Seuss Enterprises ceases publication of six titles because of racist stereotypes.

    By Jonny Diamond  March 2, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 15 Best Book Covers
    of February

    By Emily Temple  February 26, 2021
    Travel

    Feast your eyes on this gorgeous Tokyo bookshop-slash-hotel.

    By Walker Caplan  February 23, 2021
    The Hub

    All the memes in Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This, explained.

    By Walker Caplan  February 22, 2021
    The Hub

    Cover reveal: Oxford American’s Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  February 19, 2021
    Change Lab

    D’Wayne Edwards on Building a Pipeline for Diversity in Sneaker Design

    By Change Lab  February 17, 2021
    The Hub

    No, Beinecke Library is not specially designed to suffocate humans in the event of a fire.

    By Walker Caplan  February 16, 2021
    The Hub

    Here is a deeply soothing bookmaking video for your Friday escape.

    By Jonny Diamond  February 12, 2021
    Computers

    How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

    By Ryan Mungia  February 11, 2021
    Women Writers

    Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

    By Lauren Marino  February 4, 2021
    The Hub

    Here’s the very cool cover for Colson Whitehead’s next novel, Harlem Shuffle.

    By Emily Temple  February 3, 2021
    Architecture

    Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture
    in Fiction

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 29, 2021
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of January

    By Emily Temple  January 28, 2021
    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
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