• Design

    The Hub

    These library watercolors will soothe your anxious soul.

    By Katie Yee  August 11, 2020
    The Hub

    Complete your pandemic aesthetic with this bookcase that converts into a coffin.

    By Jonny Diamond  August 7, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of July

    By Emily Temple  July 30, 2020
    Comics

    My Unborn Baby Has Strong Opinions About Classic Literature

    By Kate Gavino  July 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Kimberly’s Story: How to Live in San Francisco During a Pandemic

    By Literary Hub  July 30, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Joe Sacco: Will We One Day Honor the Veterans of the Great Pandemic Wars?

    By Joe Sacco  July 27, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    The Birth of Quarantine Zines

    By Gauraa Shekhar  July 16, 2020
    Gentrification

    The Rise of the Feminized City

    By Leslie Kern  July 10, 2020
    The Hub

    Look inside Oslo’s stunning new public library, now open to the public.

    By Emily Temple  July 6, 2020
    Book Covers

    Death, Pestilence, Emptiness: Putting Covers on Albert Camus’s The Plague

    By Dylan Mulvaney  July 2, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 12 Best Book Covers of June

    By Emily Temple  June 30, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers of May

    By Emily Temple  May 29, 2020
    The Hub

    Exclusive cover reveal: Te-Ping Chen’s Land of Big Numbers.

    By Emily Temple  May 20, 2020
    The Hub

    These are the best university press book designs of 2019.

    By Emily Temple  May 6, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 13 Best Book Covers
    of April

    By Emily Temple  April 29, 2020
    Illustrations

    The Letters of the Alphabet Are Some of the Oldest Forms of Storytelling

    By Fowzia Karimi  April 27, 2020
    Fashion History

    What’s the Point of
    Wearing Clothes?

    By Shahidha Bari  April 24, 2020
    Cartoons

    Mr. Coccus, and Other Suggested Picture Books for Young Microbiologists

    By Tom Gauld  April 13, 2020
    Fashion History

    Betsey Johnson on the Eve of a Cotton Lycra Revolution

    By Betsey Johnson and Mark Vitulano  April 10, 2020
    Comics

    Still Not Gonna Read the Classics in Quarantine? Here Are Drawings.

    By Lisa Brown  April 9, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    How to Organize Your
    Home Office

    By Ronda Kaysen and Michelle Higgins  April 3, 2020
    Art

    Finding, Hiding, Hoarding: On Making Art From Trash

    By Nick Flynn  April 2, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 14 Best Book Covers
    of March

    By Emily Temple  March 31, 2020
    The Hub

    This 1940s Dutch children’s book depicts Hitler as a bug who eventually gets eaten.

    By Olivia Rutigliano  March 11, 2020
    Illustrations

    Illustrating the Domestic Bliss of Alice B. Toklas and
    Gertrude Stein

    By Maira Kalman  March 4, 2020
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