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

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

By Walker Caplan | February 23, 2021

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

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

By Walker Caplan | February 22, 2021

Cover reveal: <em>Oxford American'</em>s Spring 2021 Food Issue, guest edited by Alice Randall.

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

By Vanessa Willoughby | February 19, 2021

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

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

From the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

By Change Lab | February 17, 2021

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

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

By Walker Caplan | February 16, 2021

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

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

By Jonny Diamond | February 12, 2021

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How America Has Always Advertised the Next Golden Age of Computers

By Ryan Mungia | February 11, 2021

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

By Lauren Marino | February 4, 2021

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

By Emily Temple | February 3, 2021

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture<br> in Fiction

Ben Hopkins on Conjuring the Power of Gothic Architecture
in Fiction

The Author of Cathedral in Conversation With Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | January 29, 2021

The 10 Best Book Covers <br>of January

The 10 Best Book Covers
of January

Are We There Yet?

By Emily Temple | January 28, 2021

On the Power of Afrofuturism in the 21st Century

On the Power of Afrofuturism in the 21st Century

Tim Fielder Details the Legacies of Radical Black Imaginaries

By Tim Fielder | January 21, 2021

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

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

By Emily Temple | January 19, 2021

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

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

By Walker Caplan | January 11, 2021

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

Is the next book cover trend . . . rainbows?

By Emily Temple | January 8, 2021

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

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

Milo Beckman On Visual Analogies, Dimensionality, and
How We Organize Ourselves

By Milo Beckman | January 8, 2021

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