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    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
    Book Covers

    The 16 Best Book Covers of February

    By Emily Temple  February 28, 2020
    Book Covers

    The 10 Best Book Covers
    of January

    By Emily Temple  January 31, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Belletrist Studio Sessions:
    Mira Jacob on Drawing the America She Loves

    By Literary Hub  January 28, 2020
    Picasso

    Searching for Guernica: A Night at the Museum with Picasso

    By Christophe Ono-dit-Biot and Adel Abdessemed  January 27, 2020
    Nigerian Culture

    Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making Traditions New

    By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    How a Book Cover Gets Made: Nicole Caputo on Belletrist’s Studio Sessions

    By Literary Hub  January 21, 2020
    Minimalism

    On Contemporary Minimalism’s Maximal Lies

    By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
    Jane Austen

    The Obscure Editions of Jane Austen Novels That Made Her Internationally Known

    By Janine Barchas  January 15, 2020
    Studio Sessions

    Introducing Belletrist’s Studio Sessions, Episode One: Illustrator Cecilia Ruiz

    By Literary Hub  January 14, 2020
    Architecture

    Paul Rudolph’s Strange Vision of a Cross-Manhattan Expressway (and Other Unfinished Projects)

    By Robert Bruegmann  January 10, 2020
    The Hub

    EXCLUSIVE COVER REVEAL: Jill Bialosky’s August poetry collection, Asylum, has a cover.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 7, 2020
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